PANIYARAM

Paniyaram contains all nutritional ingredients. This dish is something different in taste and look crispy outside and soft like idli inside. This dish is a special South Indian breakfast, familiar all over Tamil Nadu. It matches with chutny, sambar, Rasam, onion chutny, brinjal thuvaiyal and Idli podi.
It tastes good even if you eat without side dishes.

INGREDIENTS:

Idli batter or dosa batter three
cups
Onion finely chopped two cups
green chillies finely chopped one cup
cumin seeds one tablespoon
Salt as required
Curry leaves finely chopped one cup
Coriander leaves finely chopped one cup
Mustard seeds one spoon
urid dal one spoon
gram dal one spoon
Asafoetida half pinch.
Cooking oil one tablespoon

STEP BY STEP PROCEDURE:

Heat the oil in a pan
Add mustard seeds to splutter
Add urid dal and gram dal and allow them into golden brown.
Let the flame in low medium
Add onion pieces, green chillies, curry leaves.
Saute for three seconds
Add cumin seeds.
Add asafoetida.
Saute for a while.
Transfer the fried ingredients above mentioned into the batter.
Add coriander leaves.
Mix well

Pour the batter eith a big spoon into the moulds of a nonstick paniaram tawa.
Allow it for cooking for both sides evenly by turning each side with the help of wooden skew

Flip them once or twice to get the paniyarams get cooked into golden brown coloured.
Collect all the cooked paniyarams in a hotpot.

Serve hot with  any  side dish u want or without side dish.