Ellu podi, a delicious spice mix made with dal, chili and sesame seeds.It tastes great with both idli and dosai varieties.  It's one of our family favourites and i have a stock of this podi in my pantry always. It's so easy to make and having them in your pantry comes handy when needed.

As this podi has sesame seeds, it doesn't need more oil while serving this podi alongside idli and/or dosai. Even without any oil also, you can have this as it is ! 

Dal 

For this podi, Amma always use skinned and split urad dal for great flavor. So mostly i use the skinned and split urad dal. But i had tried this podi with unskinned whole urad dal also. It tastes equally good however the color of the podi in a lighter shade.

Sesame Seeds

For the given recipe, you can use upto 1/3 cup of sesame seeds. Depends on your liking you can add more sesame seeds. Adding more sesame seeds gives great flavor and slight stickiness to the podi.

Ellu Idli podi | Dosai podi | Sesame seed podi

Preparation Time : 10 mins | Cooking Time : 20 mins | Makes : 2/3 cup 
Recipe Category: Powder/Condiment | Recipe Cuisine: Indian
Ellu Podi, idli podi, dosai podi, ellu idli podi, sesame seed podi Ellu podi, a delicious spice mix made with dal, chili and sesame seeds.It tastes great with both idli and dosai varieties.

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Ingredients

Red Chili - 25 

Skinned Spilt Urad Dal/Whole urad dal - 1/2 cup

Black sesame seed - 1/4 cup

Curry leaves - 2 sprigs

Garlic pods - 5 to 7

Asafoetida - 1/4 tsp

Salt

Procedure

Measure and keep everything ready. Heat 1/2 tsp of oil in a pan,add urad dal, roast it till the wonderful aroma comes from the dal,at the time, the dal slightly changes its color, transfer the dal to another plate to cool.keep it aside.

In the same pan, next roast the red chili dal till it's become crispy and mildly changes its color.

Remove the chilies on the same plate.Then roast the garlic & curry leaves till the curry leaves turns crispy & set aside.

Finally add the sesame seed in the hot pan & close it with lid/plate immediately.It starts to pop,swirl in between to avoid burning at the bottom.Once the pop sound reduces, remove the plate(be careful) & let it cool.

Once all the ingredients are cooled,put all the ingredients in the mixie jar except sesame seed along with asafoedita & grind into semi coarse powder.

Now add sesame seed & salt and grind once again to fine powder.

That's it. Flavorful Ellu milagai podi is ready.Put it in air tight container. It will remain fresh even for months.

Related : How to make Kollu Podi / Horsegram podi

Notes

• After grinding the sesame seed with other ingredients,the podi will stick to the bottom of jar, scrap the bottom of jar and give a pulse if needed.
• The color of the podi depends on amount of sesame seed you're using.
• You can use equal proportion of dal & sesame seed.it will give slightly sticky podi.
• Curry leaves is optional but i highly recommend to add for great flavor.
• Skinned urad dal gives great taste & flavor, highly recommend to use that.
• Depends on the size, increase or decrease the garlic pods.