Kara Kolukattai

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Ingredients

Idli rice -2 cups

Coconut grated – 1/2 cup

Salt – to taste

oil -2 tsps

Mustard seeds – 1 teaspoon
Curry and corriander leaves
Channa dal /kadalaparuppu – 1/2 tsp
Urudal – 1/2 tsp
Green Chillies – 4-5
Onion medium size – 1

Preparation
Soak the rice forminimum of 2 hours and grind it into a thick coarse batter with salt (thick and close to rava consistency so that you can make shapess).
Chop the onions, chillies, curry leaves and coriander leaves.
Heat the pan with oil. Temper the mustard seeds, channa dal & urud dal. When it starts spluttering, add the onions, chillies and curry/corriander leaves.
Fry for few minutes and add the grated coconut.
To this add the grinded bater and mix well . Add salt if needed.
Then add the coriander leaves and mix well.
Now make them into small portions and steam it in a idli pot / cooker for 10-15 minutes

Tips
Some of the variations you can try are :
You can replace green chillies with red chillies.
The chillies can be ground along with the rice to serve children.
Instead of grated coconut you can cut the cocount in to very small pieces and grind along with rice OR you can add the finely chopped pieces to the batter directly.