Ponganalu

Preparation:15 mins
Cook: 20 mins
Total Time: 35 mins
Servings: Makes 2 to 3 servings

Ingredients

1 cup urad dal (split black lentils)
2 1/2 cups rice (chawal)
3/4 cup chana dal (split bengal gram)
2 tsp chopped green chillies
1/4 cup chopped coriander (dhania)
salt to taste
oil as required

For Serving
coconut chutney

Method

Soak the rice and urad dal in sufficient water for 4-6 hrs.Grind the soaked rice and urad dal into smooth thick paste adding sufficient water.Leave the batter overnight to ferment.Soak the chana dal in little water in a bowl for an hour.Grease the appam pan and heat it on a medium flame.Combine the fermented batter, soaked chana dal, green chillies, coriander and salt in a bowl, mix well.Pour the spoon full of batter in each mould of the appam pan and fill the moulds completely.Once the bottom starts to brown, carefully turn on other side and let it cook till the other sides also turns to brown in colour.Remove the ponganalu from the pan and repeat the same with remaining batterto make more ponganalu.Serve ponganalu with coconut chutney or with any other chutney of your choice.