Kuzhi Paniyaram

Ingredients:

4 cup Raw Rice
3/4 cup Urud Dal
1 Onion
1 tsp Mustard seeds
1 tsp Channa dal
4 pcs Green chillies
Curry leaves
Salt to taste.

Method:

1. Soak rice and urud dal for 5-6 hours.
2. Grind rice and urud dal(separately) into a fine paste.
3. Mix the batter with salt and allow it to ferment(approximately 10-12 hours). This is similar to   idly batter.
4. Heat oil in a pan. Add mustard and Channa dal.
5. When mustard splutters, add finely chopped onions, curry leaves and fry till golden brown.
6. Take two cups of the batter in a separate dish and add the fried onion mixture to it.
7. Heat the paniyarakkal and apply one teaspoon of oil in each kuzhi.
8. Pour this batter into the paniyarakkal. Turn when the sides turn golden brown.
9. This goes well with Coconut Chutney.