Ingredients
- Masoor dal (orange in color) 500 grams
- 1 big onion - chopped
- Cilantro - chopped
- Salt - according to taste
- Green Chillies - also according to taste
- Tamarid - thick paste sort for chatni
- Jaggery - equal amount to tamarid
- Red Chilli powder - according to taste
- Salt for chatni - according to taste
- Soak masoor dal over night. Grid it carefully with less water and green chillies. You should have a thick paste sort (do not grid to smooth paste), which should enable you to make balls. It should not stick in your hand when you make balls.
- To this coarse paste add salt, chopped onions, cilantro.
- Now, if you have corn cooker, you can make balls out of paste and steam them in corn cooker or else in a big mouth vessel, pour water and tie a new cotton cloth to the vessel's mouth. Bring water to boil. Then prepare balls of masoor paste and steam them with a closed lid.
For Chatni
- Take hand full of thick paste of tamarind
- Add very little water
- Add equal amount of jaggery to tamarind paste
- Add salt according to taste
- Add red chilli powder also according to taste
- Add few cilantro leaves if you want
- Bring to just one single boil .
