Masala Seeyam

Ingredients

• • Rice (raw) - 1 cup
• • Urad dal - ¾ cup
• • Onions (small) - 10
• • Mustard seeds - ½ teaspoon
• • Coconut (scraped) - 2 tablespoons
• • Green chillies (chopped) - 2
• • Ginger (chopped) - 1 inch
• • Curry leaves - 1 sprig
• • Oil - as required

Method

• 1. Soak rice and urad dal separately for 4 hours.
• 2. Grind the rice and the urad dal into a fine consistency.
• 3. The batter should be a slightly more watery than the vada batter.
• 4. Pour this into a bowl, add salt and mix well.
• 5. Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds and crackle.
• 6. And then add onions, green chillies, ginger, curry leaves and shredded coconut and saute it.
• 7. Pour this into the batter and mix well.
• 8. Heat oil for deep frying. Drop spoonful of batter in hot oil and fry till golden.
• 9. Serve with chutney.