Black vatana sambhar + Appam

Ingredients

• Palappam Mix - 5.5 Kg ( should be 7.5 )
• Black Vatana - 6 Kg
• Onion - 2 Kg
• Ginger - 100 gms
• Garlic - 100 gms
• Coconut - 
• Dry Coconut - 
• Kadipatta - 3 lots
• Kothmbir - 2 big
• Oil - 1 Lt
• Salt, Sugar, turmeric

Preparation

• Mix 500 gms Palappam in 850 ml lukewarm water, 4tbsp sugar and little salt and grind in mixer for 1 minute. Keep batter aside to ferment for 1 hour
• Soak vatana in water for 12 hours
• In a vessel, add vatana, water, salt and cook
• Take aside around 1 Kg of vatana and grind in mixer into paste
• In another vessel, add 1 lt oil and heat. Add onions and saute
• Add garlic, turmeric and saute
• Add kadipatta and saute
• Add vatana paste and mix
• Add vatana stock water and mix
• Add coconut paste and mix
• Bring the broth to boil