Oorimindi (for 4 people)
Peanuts/ Chenigginjalu - 1 cup
Red Chillies - 9-10 if using green chillies 6-7
Tamarind - size of a small tamarind
Onion - 1/4 of a big
one Cilantro - fistful
Oil - 1/4 tsp
Jaggery - just a bit
Salt - to taste
Usually we would all have peanuts already fried, but if not just dry fry the peanuts until they are slightly brown. In the same skillet add the oil just enough for frying the chillies and fry them for about a minute. Soak the tamarind in water. Cut the onion into big chunks. In a blender or mixie if you have one, grind the peanuts chillies, tamarind with a little bit of water. When the ingredients are all finely ground, add the jaggery, salt, and grind it once more. Finally add the cilantro, onion chunks and just push the button for 2 seconds. Now you should still have the onion chunks in the chutney so that you can feel them in every bite.
Now to the Sangati part
Rice - 11/2 cups
Water - 4 cups
Ragi flour - 3 tbsp
Salt - 1 tsp
Boil rice in a thick bottomed vessel, until its very soft (you can add the salt some where in between). Now when its almost done add the ragi flour on top and wait for 2 minutes (even when the rice is all cooked you should still see some starchy water in the rice) Now with a sturdy spatula or with the traditional pappu gitti (I use the long stick part) mix the rice with the flour really well that you should not see any lumps what so ever. When you feel that it’s all mixed take the vessel off from the stove. Take a small portion of the sangati, put it on a wet cloth, wet your hands with cold water, make it into a ball, to get the perfect shape use the cloth. By moving the cloth around the ball, it makes it easy to handle the piping hot ragi mudda. You can make atleast 4 muddas/balls out of the rice. Once ragi muddas are made just leave them in the vessel with the damp cloth on them. But if you donot want to take the trouble of making the rice into balls, you can always just have the mixed up sangati.
But believe me the fun part is making the ragi ball.
So just go on and taste the hot ragi mudda with the oorimindi, once you have it in your mouth you will definitely know what I have been talking about. It has been a rainy day and the combination of sangati and chutney was the perfect lunch for the day. Hope you all would try them sometime!! Will be back with another seema dish pretty soon!
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