Hello everyone,
To be frank I do not know the actual procedure to make parupu podi and I have not tried it. When my son was 3 years, he tasted my MIL's parupu podi. He liked it very much but it was bit spicy for him. She added roasted gram and sambhar powder to it to make it non spicy. This version of parupu podi has become all time favorite side dish of my son. He is 6 yrs now, he eats all tiffins like idly, dosa, chapati, poori, upma with parupu podi. He even takes it to school.
Hope your kids will like it too :)
Ingredients:
Toor dal - 3/4 cup + 2 tsp
Channa dal - less than 1/4 cup
Roasted gram/pottu kadalai - 1 tbsp
Sambhar Powder - 2 tbsp
Hing - 2pinch
Salt to taste
Method:
1. Dry roast toor dal and channa dal separately until it turns golden brown.
2. Add salt when it is hot.
3. Transfer both dal with salt and roasted grams to a mixie jar and grind it coarsely.
4. Then add sambhar powder & hing. Grind it to a fine powder.
Serve with hot steamed rice and gingely oil. Just mix the parupu podi with gingely oil for idly, dosa side dish.