Ingredients

• Whole Green Gram [Moong dal] – 1cup
• Grated coconut - 3 tbsp
• Onion - 1 [chopped]
• Green chilli - 1 [chopped]
• Curry leaves - 1 spring
• Coriander leaves - 1 tbsp
• Ginger - 1 tbsp [grated]
• Mustard seeds - 1 tbsp
• Urad dal – ½ tbsp
• Bengal gram – ½ tbsp
• Salt to taste
• Oil - 2 tbsp

Preparation

• Wash and soak green gram for 8 hours. Drain excess water then dry out green gram in a cotton cloth. Coarse grind green gram with salt, coriander leaves, green chilli in a blender.
• Make ball shape from the mixture. Then steam it in idli cooker for 5 min.
• Heat oil in a pan then add mustard seeds. Once it splutters add Bengal gram, urad dal and add chopped onion then sauté well.
• Add ginger, green chilli and curry leaves & sauté for a min then add grated coconut sauté gently.
• Add steamed green gram balls sauté gently then sprinkle salt if required.
• Serve hot with coconut chutney

Note

• Don’t mix water while grinding green gram. Because soaked green gram itself has moisture.

Tip

• We can make sweet green gram kolukattai by adding jaggery and coconut, green cardamom powder.