Chennakunni(dried baby shrimps)Idli Podi

Description

Chennakunni is a dried baby shrimps, can get them from fish market in India and also can find easily in chinese stores, my grandma used to do idli podi with this shrimps, n it will taste awesome..can store them for more than 2 months, will be very excellent with hot idlies…These shrimps r known as krill… Check it out..http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krill…

Chennagunni eral podi/ Chennakunni idli milagai podi/ Chennagunni podi/ Eral idli Podi

Ingredients
1 cup	Chennakunni(dried baby shrimps)
½ cup	Urad dal
¼ cup	Channa dal
¾ cup	Roasted gram(pottukadalai)
1 T	Peppercorns
½ T	Cuminseeds
10 nos	Red chillis(can increase r decrease)
20 nos	Curry leaves
1 tsp	Asafoetida powder
	Salt as per taste
1 tsp	Oil

Instructions

U can find these baby dried shrimps in frozen section in chinese store..defrost 1 cup of baby shrimps for a while..heat a pan n add these baby shrimps n dry roast them until they turns slight brownish..mostly these shrimps r already cleaned ..in case if u get them in India clean them well dont use water to clean them..

Keep aside the roasted dried baby shrimps n let them cool..now heat the oil in the same pan n fry urad dal, channa dal, roasted gram, peppercorns, cumin seeds, curry leaves, redchillies one by one..once everything is well roasted add everything in the same pan n add the asafoetida powder n fry for a while , now put off the stove…keep aside n let them cool.. take the food processor n add the roasted dals n roasted shrimps n grind them coarsely with salt as per taste..Conserve them in an air tightened bottle.