Gunta Ponganalu (Paniyaram/Paddu)

My all time favorite dish, my kids love it too.... Usually, this dish is preferably made of sour dosa or idli batter.

GUNTA PONGANALU (Paniyaram/Paddu)



Ingredients:

Dosa/Idli batter
3 medium onions
4-5 chillies (increase or decrease as per taste)
Coriander leaves
Curry leaves
1 tbsp urad dal
1 tsp mustard seeds
salt to taste
Oil

Preparation:

1. Cut the onions and coriander very finely. Mince the chillies roughly. Make a tempering of urad dal, mustard seeds and curry leaves.




2. Mix all the above shown ingredients together, add salt and mix the batter into this.




3. Heat the ponganalu dish (pic shown below), pour oil into the hollows of the dish. Later pour the batter. The batter usually rises as it cooks so, pour batter accordingly into the hollows.




4. After the batter rises and you see the sides browned, turn over the ponganalu.





5. Let this cook for sometime after turning it the other way. Serve it hot with chutney podi, coconut chutney or eat it as it is.