Idly with Mutta/Egg roast and chutney

Soft idly

Ingredients
Idly rice -2 cups (preferably Ponni raw rice)

Urud dal -1 cup

Par-boled rice- 1/4 cup

Fenugreek seeds(Methi) -1/4cup

Water - 1 1/2 cup

Salt for taste
Method:
Soak Idly rice in water for about 6 hours. Soak urud dal and methi together in water for 6 hours.

Drain the water from urud dal and grind it in mixie with 1/2 glass of water(make sure that the batter does not get hot in between.)

Fine grind it until the mixture is frothy. Keep aside .
Drain water from soaked rice . Grind it with one glass of water in mixie. Now mix the ground items and add salt.Now let it to ferment for 16 - 18 hours. Then make idlys in the idly steamer. Steam the idlys on high for 10 minutes .

Coconut chutney

Ingredients
Coconut , grated- 1 cup

Green chillies- 3 no

Ginger-1-inch piece

Shallots - 1
Salt to taste

For seasoning
Oil-1 tsp

Mustard seeds-1/2 tspdry red chilli - 2

Shallot - 1

Curry leaves-4 noMethod

Method

Grind all the ingredients to a smooth paste with little water.
Heat oil. Add mustard seeds. When they splutter, add dry red chilli,shallots and curry leaves and sauté slowly for 1 minutes. Add this seasoning to ground mixture .

Egg roast or Mutta roast

Ingredients

Egg - 3 nos(hardboiled)

Onion(sliced thinly) - 2 no(medium size)

Ginger - 1/2 tsp

Garlic - 6 no

Coriander powder - 2 tbsp

Dry redchilly - 5 no

Pepper powder - 1/2 tsp

Oil - 3 tbsp

Mustard seeds - 1 tsp

Fennel seeds - 1 tsp

Curry leaves - 5 no

Water - 1 cup

Coconut milk - 1/2 cup

Salt - As reqd

Method
Heat a pan ,add coriander,dry red chilly and salt and fry on medium heat. Then grind well.

Make few slits on the hardboiled eggs.

Heat oil in a kadai.Splutter mustard seeds and fennel seeds and saute curry leaves.

Add onion,ginger and garlic and saute well.

Add the ground mixture to it. Saute again for a while.Add water and salt.

Allow it to boil.

When it starts to boil, add eggs and coconut milk.when gravy thickens to the required consistency, remove from heat.

At the end add pepper powder.
:- Can serve hot with roti, chappathi, puttu, appam etc.