Ingredients

• 2 cups - channa (any variety), soaked over night.
• 10 - green chillies.
• Curry Leaves - few.
• 2 inches - ginger.
• Salt, to taste.
• 4 tbsp - oil.
• For Seasoning:
• Mustard.
• Urad dal.

How to Make Patholi

• In a blender, mix channa, green chillies, ginger and salt.
• Do not make it too smooth a paste. Put very little water while grinding to paste.
• In a kadai, season oil with mustard and urad dal.
• When mustard splutters, add curry leaves and the ground paste. Keep it on a slow flame and keep stirring every 5 minutes.
• It will take like 30 minutes for this paste to get roasted (it turns pinkish).
• Add coriander at the end. Do not cover it at any time while cooking.