Ingredients for sweet karadai
rice flr roasted 1 cup vellam/ jaggery 3/4 cup water 2 cups
boiled red/white karamani/ lobia/ small kidney beans 1 tbsp
Method
1) Boil 2 cups water, add jaggery, once it melts, strain.
2) reheat the jaggery, add boiled karamani/ lobia, add rice flr,. mixing well till all the water is absorbed & it comes as a lump.
3) remove, cool. flatten a small portion of it, by wetting your palms, make a small depression in the centre & keep on idli plates, till you make all like this.
( For about 150gms of rice flr. you may easily get about 10 karadais)
4) steam them in a cooker just like you'd do for idlis, with little water in a pressure cooker or idli steamer, or in a microwave idli plate. Steam for 10 minutes on the gas or for about 3 minutes in the microwave.
5) this is eaten with fresh home made butter, after doing ' nevediyam', i.e., after offering to God.
Ingredients for savory karadai
rice flr roasted 1 cup water 2 cups salt to taste oil 1 tsp mustard seeds 1 tsp
chana dal 2 tsp udad dal 2 tsp green chilies 4-5 or as per taste ginger 1" cut fine
boiled white/ red karamani, i.e. small kidney beans 1 tbsp hing/ asafetida 1/4 tsp curry leaves little
method
1) in a pan/ kadai, heat oil, add mustard seeds, dals, once mustard crackles & dals turn golden, add hing, finely chopped chilies, ginger & curry leaves, saute a little .
2) add water, salt & boiled karamani
3) once the water boils well, ass rice flr, keep stirring well, it all the water is absorbed & it forms a lump.
4) remove & cool. wet your palms, take a small portion of the dough, flatten it, make a slight depression in the centre, keep on idli plates, steam for 10 minutes.
5) after offering to God, serve it hot with fresh home made butter !
those who like coconut, may add about 1-2 tbsp of grated or finely chopped coconut, when you add flr & cook.
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