Pickle Idly Upma

             Hello folks, hope you all had a very happy weekend and me also enjoyed my weekend with Diwali shopping and get together party. This weekend was so great and left soon. hope you all in Diwali mood and preparing sweets and snacks to enjoy the festival day with your friends and family. My Hearty wishes to you all. Coming to today's recipe, very simple and nice transformation of left over idly. I got this idea from Priya sreeram's sizzling tangy idly recipe. She deep fried the idlys with pickle and idly podi. But i don't have heart to deep fry idly so I tried in simple and yummy idly upma. with cut Mango pickle and Milagai podi. It was so yummy and i love the tangy pickle taste n flavor along with crunchy ginger. Really a drool worthy recipe...try this, definitely u will love it... , i just love this with tomato ketchup. yum..yum...Now to  the yummy Pickle Idly Upma...

Ingredients

1. Idly    3 no.s
2. Onion   1 medium(finely chopped)
3. Ginger    2 tsp(finely chopped)
4. Curry leaves    few
5. Cilantro    2 tbsp(finely chopped)
6. Mango pickle     1-2 tsp (or to taste)
7. Idly Milagai Podi     2 tbsp
8. Salt    a pinch
9. Turmeric powder    1/4 tsp
10. Oil      2 tsp
11. mustard seeds   1/4 tsp
12. Urad dal    1 and 1/2 tsp

Idly Milagai Podi:

1. Dry red chillies    10 no.s
2. Urad dal    1/2 cup
3. Chana dal    1/4 cup
4. Sesame seeds    3-4 tbsp
5. Salt   to taste

       Dry roast all the above igredients separately  till dal turns light golden color and falvor comes.Take care not to burn sesame seeds.Then allow to cool them for a while and grind along with salt to a little coarse powder. Thats it idly milagai podi is ready.
Method

• Crumble the idly using hands and keep aside.

• Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds when it splutter add urad dal and fry till it turns to light golden brown.

• Saute onions until it turns pink and then add crumbled idly and turmeric powder, pinch of salt mix everything well and stir fry for a minute.

• Then add mango pickle , mix well with the idly mixture and fry for another minute.

• And now add idly milagai podi and stir fry well and lastly add some chopped cilantro mix well and turn off the stove.

• That's it...yummy and tangy pickle idly upma is ready. enjoy hot !!!

Notes:
I used store bought cut mango pickle. you can use home made pickle also.
Adjust podli and pickle to your taste. Mine was mild tangy and spicy...