MOR-KUZHLAMBU URUNDAI ( STEAMED DHAL DUMBLINGS IN YOGURT MIXTURE)

Ingredients:

1. Yougurt - 1/2 cup
2. Salt - as required

To Grind:

1. Freshly grated Coconut - 1/4 cup
2. Fried gram (chutney dhal / pottu kadalai) - 1 tbs
3. Jeera - 1 tsp
4. Green chillies - 2
5. Red chillies - 2
6. Asfotedia powder - 1 tsp
7. Turmeric powder - 1 tsp

For dumplings:

1. channa dhal - 1/4 cup
2. Toor dhal - 1/4 cup
3. Garlic- 1
4. Jeera - 1 tsp
5. Salt - as required
6. Red chillies - as required

Seasoning:

1. Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
2. Jeera - 1 tsp
3. Curry leaves - 1 twig

Instructions for preparing dumplings:

1. Soak both the dhals for a minimum of 1 hour.
2. Add red chillies, garlic, jeera, salt, hing and the soaked dhal to the mixer grinder and grind it to a coarse paste.

3. Transfer that to a bowl. Take a flat vessel for pressure cooking the dhal balls. You can even use your idly plates to cook these dhal balls.

4. Grease the the flat vessel with little bit cooking oil to avoid sticking.
5. Make a small ball of lemon size from the grind paste and arrange it in the vessel. Make sure the balls do have distance between each ball.
6. Steam it in the pressure cooker for 15 minutes or until it get cooked without putting the cooker weight.
7. Once it got cooked, you can check with a skewer to see whether its coming without sticking.
8. Take the cooked balls and keep ready in a bowl.

Instructions for making morkuzhambu:

1. Grind freshly grated coconut, gram dhal/ chutney dhal, red chillies, green chillies, jeera, turmeric powder, hing to a smooth paste by adding enough water.

2. Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, jeera, curry leaves for seasoning. Once they got popped, pour the grinded paste to the pan, add  3/4 cup of water. Allow to boil for 3-4 minutes.

3. In the mean while, whisk the yogurt without any lumps. Reduce the flame, pour the yogurt to the pan and keep stirring for a minute in the slow flame itself. If you feel, the mixture is too thick you can add few water to make it to a semi-liquid consistency.

4. Add the steam-cooked balls to the yogurt mixture and allow to cook for a minute.

5. Serve it after an hour with hot white rice. This dhal dumplings are very tasty to eat seperately also.