Ingredients

• 1 cup - black gram
• 3/4 cup - Bengal gram
• 1/2 cup - gingili seeds
• 2 cups -red chillies
• 3 or 4 small pieces - asafoetida
• salt to taste
• 1 tbsp - cooking oil

How to Make Spicy Powder for Dosas-Idlis

• Add a drop of oil, and fry black gram and Bengal gram separately till golden colour.
• Drop some more drops of oil and fry asafoetida, red chillies accordingly in low flame till crisp.
• Dry roast gingili seeds, salt. Blend all the roasted ingredients cool and grind to dry powder in a mixie, but slightly coarse.
• Before serving, add a few drops of oil to powder.