Bandi style Tawa Idly

Tawa Idly has become one of the most desirable street food Hyderabad. Although Idly is a authentic food, our master chefs street vendors took it to whole new level. So today I tried street food style tawa idly with my home made spices.

The following ingredients serves only one person. You can add more the below list.

Ingredients : 
Onions : 1/4th of medium size onion chopped in to cubes.
Tomato : 1/2 of small size tomato chopped into cubes.
Idly : 1
Butter : 2 to 3 tbspn (Frozen)
Coriander leaves : few chopped

Masala : 
Tuar dal : 1 tsp
Urad dal : 1/2 tsp
Methi seeds : 1/4 tsp
Pepper corn : 1/4 tsp
Red Chillies : 3 or more as per your taste
Jeera : 1/2 tsp
Dhania seeds : 1/2 tsp
Aam chur : 1/4 tsp
Black salt : Just a pinch (Optional)
Salt : As per your taste.

Method : 

1. First dry roast the above whole masala except aam chur, black salt and normal salt.
2. Let them cool down for few minutes. In a mixer jar add little salt and dry roasted masala to make them into a fine powder.
3. Transfer masala powder into a jar, add aamchur powder and black salt and mix them. You can store them for 2 to 3 months or until the aroma stays.
4. Now put a tawa on low flame. Add 2 tbspn (Frozen not melted) of butter on to it and add onions and tomato.
5. Let it cook on tawa on low flame.
6. The reason why we add frozen butter is it takes little time to melt down and by the time it melts down our veggies becomes softer and cooks well.
7. Now add little salt. (We added salt in masala and in idly too. Make sure you dont add too much of salt to our veggies on tawa)
8. Close the lid for 30 to 40 secs. Now add our masala powder and let it cook for 30 to 40 secs more.
9. Now place our idly on to tawa and let press gently with a back of laddle or with roti turner.
10. Sprinkle some masala over idly and add little butter more butter over idly.
11. Let is fry with lid close for 20 secs and turn idly and press gently again.
12. Let it fry evenly on both the sides.
13. Now add chopped coriander leaves.
14. Transfer it to a serving plate.
15. Serve it hot either with chutney or just plain tawa idly. 

Hope you liked the recipe. If you don't have much time in preparing masala powder just take 2 tspn of sambar powder add aamchur, dhania powder, jeera powder and salt.