Mixed vegetable Poopudi

Poopudi is an authentic dish usually prepared using rice and dal. Its steamed with onion and it tastes really good. My mom often used to make it in our home, as this is my grand mom's favorite.

People used to eat it in different forms. In my mom's place we used to have it with sugar and milk. You have it plainly with any sambhar. I tried with this new version and it turned out well.

Poopudi

Serves - 4
Preparation time - 1 hour + 2 hours (for soaking)

Ingredients:

Idly rice - 11/2 cup
Toor dal - 1/2 cup + 1 tbsp
Red chillies - 2
Whole black pepper-6
Turmeric - 1 tsp
Cumin seeds - 1 tbsp
Onion- 1
Garlic - 6 pods 
Carrot - 1 
Beans - 1/3 cup
Green Peas - 1/2 cup (I used frozen)
Potato-1
Green chillies- 1 big
Oil - 2 tsp 
Salt - as per taste 

Seasoning:

Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
Urad dal - 1 tsp
Hing - a pinch
Curry Leaves- few 
Coriander - a little 

Method:

Soak the rice and Toor dal together for 2 hours.

Add the mixture to a blender with red chillies, whole black pepper,cumin seeds and turmeric with salt. Just pulse the blender and grind it coarsely with less water. 

Chop  the onion very finely and mix it with the grounded mixture. Make small round balls and place it on a idly pan. Steam it in the same process as you prepare idly. Steaming takes 10 minutes. 

Chop the vegetables- beans, green chillies and garlic finely and carrot lengthwise. Roughly chop the potato. In a pan add 2 tsp of oil and wait for sometime. 

Now add mustard seeds once it splutters, add urad dal. When the dal turns slightly brown add hing,green chillies  and curry leaves followed by garlic. 

Add all the vegetables ( carrot+beans+green peas+potato) and close the pan for it to cook. Keep frying in between and make sure it leaves the excess water. 

Meantime, collect the steamed idlies (grounded mixture) in a bowl and crumble it into very small pieces. Mix the crumbled mixture to the vegetables and heat it for 5 minutes. Adjust salt to taste and mix it with coriander.

Note-
Make sure to keep the stove in medium low to prevent burning of mustard seeds. 
Adjust the quantity of red chillies,green chillies  and whole black pepper as per taste.

Enjoy it plainly or with coconut chutney !!!!

Thanks for reading :)