Pundi | Oondi | Steamed rice dumplings
a popular Mangalorean breakfast dish
Servings 15 pundis
Ingredients
- 1 cup rice rava/ idli rava
- 1 tbsp oil
- 1 tsp mustard seeds
- 1 tsp udad dal (split black gram)
- 1 tsp chana dal (split bengal gram)
- few curry leaves, finely chopped
- 1 dry red chilly, roughly chopped
- ½ cup fresh coconut, grated
- Salt to taste
Instructions
- Heat oil in a pan.
- Add mustard seeds, udad dal, chana dal, chopped curry leaves and chopped dry chilly.
- Saute for few seconds.
- Add rice rava and saute on low flame for 4 to 5 minutes.
- Next, add 2 cups of hot water. Mix well.
- Add grated coconut and salt.
- Mix well till all the water is absorbed by the rice rava and a dough is formed.
- Turn off the heat and allow this to cool slightly.
- When the mixture is hot enough to handle, pinch a lemon sized portion and roll between your palms to form a small ball.
- Make a small depression with your thumb in the middle of the dumpling.
- Similarly make rest of the dumplings from the remaining dough.
- Boil water in a steamer.
- Place all the pundis (dumplings) on the greased steamer plate and steam them for 15 minutes on medium heat.
- Serve hot with coconut chutney.