Menthe Kodilu

Ingredients:

1.5 cup grated Coconut

3 - 4 Red Chillies

1 tsp Coriander seeds

1/2 tsp Black Gram seeds

1/8 tsp Cumin seeds

1/4 tsp Fenugreek seeds

Pinch of Asafetida powder

5 - 6 Curry leaves

Grape sized Tamarind

Lemon sized Jaggary

1 tsp Mustard seeds
1 - 2 broken Red Chilly

2 tsp Oil

Recipe:

Put red chillies, cumin seeds, coriander seeds, blackgram seeds, fenugreek seeds, 1 tsp oil in a pan and fry them in medium flame. Once it starts giving nice aroma, add asafetida powder and fry them for about 5-10 seconds. Add 3-4 curry leaves and fry them for about 1 min in medium flame.

Add grated coconut, fried sambar masala, tamarind in a mixer and grind it to smooth paste by adding sufficient amount of water. (If it is frozen coconut use hot water while grinding.) Transfer this to a vessel. Add jaggary, salt, required amount of water and bring it to boil. Keep the sambar in low flame for about 2 mins. 

Put mustard seeds, red chilly pieces, 1 tsp oil in a pan and heat. Once it starts spluttering, add 2-3 curry leaves and add it to sambar. It goes well with Uddina Dosa / Set Dosa / Majjige Paddu. 

Even though the quantity of Menthe(Fenugreek) seeds used here is less, it is still called Menthe Kodilu in Havyaka community!

Palak(Spinach) Pakoda

Ingredients:
25 - 30 baby Spinach leaves / Ele Palak soppu
1/4 medium sized Onion
2 - 3 Green Chillies
5 - 6 strands of Coriander leaves
1/4 cup Rice flour / Akki hudi
2 - 3 tsp Bengal Gram flour / Besan flour / Kadle hudi

1/2 tsp Chilly powder

10 - 12 Cumin seeds / Jeera

10 - 12 Carom seeds / Ajwain seeds / Oma
Big pinch of Asafetida powder
1.5 tsp Chat Masala

Salt to taste

Oil

Recipe:
Remove the stems and roughly cut the spinach leaves as shown in the picture below. Cut the onion into thin pieces as shown in the picture below. Chop the green chillies and coriander leaves into small pieces as shown in the picture below.

Put this chopped ingredients in a vessel. Add salt, chilly powder, cumin seeds, carom seeds, asafetida powder, 1/2 - 3/4 tsp chat masala, bengal gram flour, rice flour and mix them well by adding little amount of water. (Don't make the batter too thin.)

Keep oil in a thick bottomed vessel and heat. Take little amount of prepared batter and put it in oil as shown in the picture below. Fry them in oil until they turn golden in color.

Sprinkle little amount of chat masala and serve hot along with tomato ketchup.