Neer Urundai

I am a big fan of Naatu Palakaram. In my nativity this is one of the famous foods… when I was in childhood my mom used to make for me… Luckily my mom came USA to stay with us.… and making some special dishes for us. I would like to share all of my mom recipes in my blog. Hopefully it will helpful to others… Me and shanu loves a lot... 

It is a healthy and tasty snack. This goes very well with coconut/onion chutney…

Ingredients

Idli Rice – 2 Cups

Grated Coconut – 1 cup

Oil – 2 tsp

Salt as required

Chopped Coriander Leaves - few

To Temper

Mustard Seeds – 2 tsp

Urad Dal – 2 tsp

Dry Red Chilli – 3 (Broken into small pieces)

Finely Chopped Curry Leaves – few

Sesame Oil – 3 tsp

Method

Wash and soak the idli rice at least for 2 hours.

In a grinder, add the soaked rice with required salt and grind it. Please make sure it should not be fine flour.

In a kadai, heat oil. And add this flour and mix well for 4 to 5 min. Then switch off the flame.

In a pan, heat oil. Add the tempering items one by one and sauté it for few seconds.

Now add the grated coconut and sauté it for few min.

And add these tempering items into the flour.

Add the chopped coriander leaves and mix well. And make it as small sized ball.

In an idli cooker, place these balls and cook it properly. 

Once it done then serve with coconut chutney/Kara chutney/Tomato Ketchup…