Preparation time: 3 hours
Cooking time: 15 min
Serves: 4

Ingredients: (measuring cup used = 240ml)

1. 1 cup dosa rice
2. 1/2 cup coconut
3. 1/2 cup urad dal
4. 2 cm length ginger
5. 2 - 3 green chilies
6. 1 tbsp finely chopped curry leaves
7. A big pinch of asafoetida
8. Salt as per your taste
9. Banana leaves

Extra ingredients for sweet kadubu: (measuring cup used = 240ml)

1. 1/2 cup coconut
2. 1/4 cup jaggery

Instructions for making sweet and khara kadubu:

1. Soak the rice for 2 - 3 hours.
2. Also soak the urad dal for 2 - 3 hours.
3. Now take banana leaves and clean it thoroughly. Next either steam it or hold it on the stove top for few seconds. This is done to avoid breaking of the leaves while folding.
4. Once the rice is soaked transfer it into a mixie jar, add in 1/2 cup of coconut and required salt.
5. Grind it into a fine paste using required water. Make sure you add very minimum water required. The batter consistency should be thicker than milkshake. Transfer it into a container.
6. Next take soaked urad dal, ginger, green chili and salt in a mixie jar.
7. Add in minimum required water and grind it into a smooth paste. Transfer it into a container. Add in finely chopped curry leaves and asafoetida. Give a quick mix and keep it aside.
8. Next put the water in a steamer and keep it for boiling. Parallely take a banana leaf and spread the rice batter.
9. On top of it, add in urad dal batter.
10. Fold it and place it carefully in the steamer.
11. To prepare sweet kadubu, spread jaggery-coconut mixture instead of urad dal batter.
12. Like this continue and finish making all the kadubu and place them in the steamer.
13. Steam it for 20 minutes. Serve the spicy kadubu with coconut chutney and sweet kadubu with ghee.

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