SANTHAGAI SWEET AND SANTHAGAI SPICY

This is an authentic South Indian dish normally made as breakfast or dinner. It is a highly special dish in a special feast served to the newly married couples in all of our homes. It acquires lot of work and serves yummy dish to us..

It is having carbohydrates, iron in jaggery we use for sidedish and coconut used in this recipe is helping to reduce obesity, prevent the heart diseases and having dietary fibers.

INGREDIENTS FOR SWEET DISH:

Ponni boiled rice three cups

Jaggery 200 gms

Coconut gratings two cups

Dry ginger one spoon

Cardamom 6

Ghee or gingelly oil optional one spoon

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INGREDIENTS FOR SPICY DISH:

Onion chopped one tablespoon

curry leaves one cup finely chopped

Red chillies four as needed

Coriander leaves finely chopped

Ginger (peeled off and shredded) one spoon

Tomato finely chopped one medium size

Turmeric one pinch

Cloves three

Mustard seeds one spoon

Urid dal one spoon

Cooking oil one tablespoon

PROCEDURE

Soak the rice for three hours and grind with a little salt to enhance taste into a smooth paste  and the batter will be collected in a vessel.

Pour the batter into Idli moulds and steam it for 7 minutes.

Squeeze the idlies into thin strands through the Press machine  in a fitted vessel 

Keep aside.

Add two cups of water and bring to boil.

Add Jaggery.

Grind the coconut grates , dry ginger, cardamom together with water needed in the mixie jar.

When the consistency of jaggery syrup becomes thick, add coconut mixture into it.

Stir well to mix evenly and allow to boil for a while.

Remove it from flame.

Divide equal halves of rice strands. The one-half strands are used plain for sweet syrup we prepared.

The remaining half of rice strands are used in spicy sevai.

Heat the cooking oil and add mustard seeds and urad dal to splutter

Add onions, red chillies broken, curry leaves and ginger

Add turmeric.

Add tomato pieces.

Add little salt required

Sim the flame and allow to cook the tomatoes to a certain extent. Meanwhile the.

Rice strands should be made short sevai by adding gingelly oil and sprinkling of little water.

Add this Remaining broken strands of rice.

Saute well with coriander leaves.

Spicy tomato Santhagai is ready.