Ellu podi or sesame seed powder made using roasting spices, sesame seeds and lentils. This can be served over some rice and a drizzle of ghee. You can have it with idli or dosa too.
Ellu Podi Recipe
I wanted to share this podi here for a long time. Even though this is a staple in our house. I somehow missed to share it here. Finally I made quite a few powders yesterday specially for blog. Will share all those soon.
Ellu is also known as sesame seed in english. Sesame seeds has lots of health benefits, one of the main is iron and it is really good for kids and girl children.
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Ingredients for Sesame seed powder
Urad Dal / Ulundu Paruppu - ½ cup
Dry Red Chillies - 5 to 8
Sesame Seeds / Ellu - 1 cup
Garlic - 3 to 4
Curry Leaves a handful
Salt to taste
How to Make Sesame Seed Powder
- Heat oil in a pan, add in urad dal and roast till golden. Remove to a plate.
- Add in dry red chillies and roast golden. Remove to a plate.
- Add in sesame seeds and roast till done. Remove to a plate.
- Take curry leaves in a pan. toast till crispy. Remove to a plate.
- Cool down completely.
- Take it a blender add in garlic and salt and powder till crushed.
- Cool it down, store it in an air tight container.
Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you.
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Ellu Podi | Sesame Seed Powder for Idli, Dosa & Rice
Ingredients
- Oil - ½ tsp
- Urad Dal / Ulundu Paruppu - ½ cup
- Dry Red Chillies - 5 to 8
- Sesame Seeds / Ellu - 1 cup
- Garlic - 3 to 4
- Curry Leaves a handful
- Salt to taste
Instructions
- Heat oil in a pan, add in urad dal and roast till golden. Remove to a plate.
- Add in dry red chillies and roast golden. Remove to a plate.
- Add in sesame seeds and roast till done. Remove to a plate.
- Take curry leaves in a pan. toast till crispy. Remove to a plate.
- Cool down completely.
- Take it a blender add in garlic and salt and powder till crushed.
- Cool it down, store it in an air tight container.
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Ellu podi with Step by Step pictures
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| Heat oil in a pan |
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| add in urad dal |
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| toast till golden |
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| now it is golden |
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| take it in a plate |
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| take chillies in a pan |
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| toast till golden |
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| set aside to cool |
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| take sesame seeds in a pan |
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| toast till it is popped |
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| take it in a plate |
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| add curry leaves and toast |
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| toast till crispy |
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| set aside to cool |
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| add some garlic to the mix |
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| take it in a blender |
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| add in salt |
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| powder it |
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| done |
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| store |
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Geetha Krishnan
My favorite podi. Childhood memories
Senthil
very tasty