Upma rice balls

Ingredients:

1 cup Rice
¼ cup Red Gram (split)
¼ cup Coconut (grated)
1 tsp Black gram (split)
1 tsp Mustard seeds (black)
1 tsp Bengal Gram (split)
¼ tsp Asafetida
3 Green Chilies (chopped)
1 tsp Ginger(grated)

3 tsp Vegetable Oil

Directions:

Soak rice for 2 hrs. And dry it up thoroughly. Coarsely grind and sieve out the powder to get Rava. Grind coarsely soaked and drained toor dal with green chili and ginger paste. Heat the pan with oil. Now add mustard seeds, chana dal, urad dal and 1 red chili broken into pieces when mustard seeds start spluttering. When this turns pink, put asafetida, ginger and green chili coarsely ground paste. Add 2 glass of water. Put salt to taste and 2 tsp of oil. Bring it to boil. Now add ground tour dal and 1 cup of rava rice. Like upma the paste should start leaving sides of the pan. Now slowly make into long balls like bread rolls but just 2 ½ " long and steam it in idli pan by keeping two balls in hole for 10 minutes. The rice balls are ready to eat. Serve it with coconut chutney or dahi kadi.
Mostly south Indian recipes are rice based and generally steamed and good for health, even children above one year who can bite and eat, can easily digest. Good item.