Homemade South Indian Vegetarian Foods - Indiram

Tasty Dal mixes can be an amazing source of  protein and can be eaten with rice, idlis /dosas as well as with bread, chapathis. If you develop a taste for it , its the best and easiest way for vegeterians to get their daily intake of protein. This nutritious powder can be prepared with simple ingredients like toor dal, pepper and chilli. They can also be spiced up a bit by adding channa dal, jeera, garlic and so on or  roasted in ghee. 😆yummy!!! Yesterday I made all the different types and packed them off to some eager customers.  Pappu Podis are amazing food for children to whet their appetites on:) And once they like it, they could eat them as often as they want.   A sweet version of the dal powder is when you add jaggery or sugar to it. This can be eaten like a snack as it is, or added to pori or avalakki (aval) and will make for a filling snack.    

Ahem!!  Are you guys out there ?  Wondering where I had  disappeared ?  Did you really think I had fallen from the cooking pot into the fire ? 😀or fallen off the edge of the counter ? or stewing in the sink ?  Not at all. I was savouring 😋  my own Inji Puli and could not get a second helping for myself  - it vanished within a few minutes, right under my reluctant eyes. My family wanted it all.  It all started when I left for a short trip to Chennai (btw that's one of the reasons I was absent from my blog ) . I met my sister and she asked me "hey malli, why don't you prepare Inji puli - its a hot favourite with my family and friends."   And when I returned to Bangalore, where I live, that's just what I did!! Inji puli is a mix of ginger, tamarind and garlic , mashed together in oil and serves as a paste to be eaten with rice, as a chutney to be eaten with idlis and dosas and as a spread to be eaten with Indian bread or chapathis. Its a pickle, a paste,