Coconut Podi

Ingredients:

Grated coconut - 1 cup
Urad dal - 1 cup
Dried Red chilli - 1/2 cup or 5-8
Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
Asafoetida - 1/2 tsp

Method:

1. Fry the mustard seeds, red chilli and urad dal one by one and separately with 1 tsp of oil. Urad dal should be golden brown.
2. Fry the grated coconut separately, till the oil separates and slightly crisp.
3. Grind the red chillies first in pulse mode in a mixer, then the urad dal. Grind well into a powder. Neither coarse nor fine powder. Somewhat inbetween that.
4. Add fried grated coconut into the mixer, grind it in pulse mode for 2 times.
5. Finally add salt and mix well.

Powder is ready. Allow the powder to cool and store it in airtight container.
This podi can be had with dosa, idly, idiappam, palappam, rice.. etc.