Kollu podi recipe, healthy podi varieties with step by step pictures
Hope you all had a wonderful Diwali celebrations. We too had a great Diwali and after having all the sweets and oily food for the past few days, we started craving for a simple food and suddenly i thought about this Kollu podi and made the same today. I have heard that Kollu | horse gram is recommended for people who wants to reduce weight .
Hope you all had a wonderful Diwali celebrations. We too had a great Diwali and after having all the sweets and oily food for the past few days, we started craving for a simple food and suddenly i thought about this Kollu podi and made the same today. I have heard that Kollu | horse gram is recommended for people who wants to reduce weight .
INGREDIENTS:
| KOLLU | HORSE GRAM | 1/2 CUP |
| TOOR DAL | 2 TBLSP |
| OIL | 1/4 TSP |
| DRY RED CHILLI | 2 |
| BLACK PEPPER | 1 TSP |
| GARLIC | 2 PODS (OPTIONAL) |
| ASAFOETIDA | A PINCH |
| SALT | AS NEEDED |
METHOD:
- Heat a pan and add oil to this. Roast the horse gram | kollu and toor dal to this and nicely roast it without getting burnt. Keep it aside and roast the red chillies, garlic (if using), black pepper, asafoetida in a medium low flame. In the last add salt and switch off the flame.
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- Combine the roasted kollu and spice mixture. Allow them to cool completely. Grind it into a fine powder using a mixer.
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- When done allow the podi to get cool by spreading this in a plate. After 15 minutes, using a clean dry spoon transfer it to a dry container and store it .
- This can be mixed with hot rice along with few drops of sesame oil.
- Even you can have this with Idli | Dosa too instead of milagai podi.
28 comments
Healthy podi makes very healthy when combined with steamed idli!!!
kalakita jeyashiri 🙂 its all time favourite 🙂
Nice n healthy podi..wud b great wid rice
Yummy and healthy podi!!! so yummy with hot rice!!
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Yummy podi..
i love the contrats in the last pic, this is a very new thing to me.
Nice podi Jeyashri…
Looks yumm Jeyashri. Never had it before. Nice cliks.
Wow, this is such a new dish, love the idea… will try this out 🙂
Wow wonderful Podi,sure will make this:)
i too used to grind this podi. But my version is only horsegram & salt without oil for weight reduction purpose. Tastes good and love to eat rice just because of this podi..
Just need some rice and papads,i'll happily have this flavourful podi rite now.
healthy n yummy..
delicious dear…
My Paati makes it often without garlic. yes it is true that it burns fat in our body.
Nice clicks, have to try out this..
never tried this recipe.. thxs for sharing…
Tasty flavorful podi !!
Healthy podi…Never had this before…and the last line about reducing weight makes me want to prepare it immediately..:)
Love to try this. will make it soon . 🙂
Healthy podi..Thanks for sharing..
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Jeyashri your Kollu Podi is a very healthy recipe. I love podi with Steamed Rice Idli. And Hing (asafoetida) always adds a very nice flavor to any dish.
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This is my favourite podi.. I do this all the time.. I add curry leaves to it.
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Gr8 recipe,will try it for sure..
Nice and Healthy Podi.
tried this and loved it 🙂 my mom used to make this during my college days and pack it for me to take to hostel..but I never touched it those days! Now I searched hard for kollu and made this 🙂
Tried it by adding fried undead dhal which enhances the taste
Nice