Kaara kadubu
Ingredients
Dough or Ookarisida hittu —- please check the recipe dough for kayi kadubu
Urad dhal—1 cup
Raw rice rava (( raw rice idli rava )— 2 cups
Wash and soak urad dhal in water for 4 to 5 hours.
Wash rice rava drain water and keep ready.
Method for grinding the batter
Drain water from urad dhal and grind it to a fine paste either in mixer or wet grinder.
Adding little water .
Transfer to a big bowl
Other ingredients for masala
Channa dhal and moong dhal—2 tablespoon soaked in water for 2 hours
and drained .
Fresh grated coconut or coconut small pieces—1/2 cup
Jeera and black pepper coarsely powdered—2 table spoon.
Green chillie —2 to 3
Curry leaves —1/4 cup
Coriander leaves—chopped 2 tablespoon
Asafoetida—1 tablespoon
Ginger 4 inches piece.
Salt to taste.
In a mixer take curry leaves,coriander leaves,ginger,green chillies and just pulse it to coarse mixture
Or you can chop all to small pieces.
Now add all this to urad Dhal batter and nix well and keep for fermentation overnight.
Next day mix the batter well.
Now for filling and making kadubus
Take one dough ball roll it into flat round shape using roti press or you can use rolling pin.
Take 2 parchment paper pieces or plastic sheets and grease them.
Keep one sheet on the bottom of roti press ,put the dough in the middle,keep another sheet on top and press it gently.
Now on the flattened dough put a tablespoon of prepared masala mix and fold it to half moon shape. You can roughly seal edges by pressing only at edges.
Make all the kadubus in the same manner. Keep it on a greased plate or cooker container
Steam cook this on medium flame in pressure cooker or steamer for 10 to 12 minutes. Don’t put whistle on pressure cooker lid.
Open the steamer and remove plates.
Keep it aside let it cool for a while.
Now kaara kadubu is ready
Serve with coconut chutney and ghee.