Idly Chilly Manchurian

This is a great appetizer one could ever make with leftover tiffin items like idlies. Back home, when idlies were left, my mother in law used to slightly fry them on tawa and eat them with spicy gun/nut powder. This idea offcourse (little customised to my taste) sparkled in my mind when I had left over ravva idlies the other day. The result was great and my husband actually thought it was aloo manchurian until he scrutinized to figure it out:)
Ingredients to serve 3Idlies (leftover/fresh) - 4
Green chillies - 5 (vary as per spice preference)
Salt - 1 tspoon
Onions - 1 big sliced thin
Shredded carrots - 1/4 cup (optional)
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tspoon
Chilly powder - 1 tspoonPepper powder - 1 tspoon
Curry leaves - 3 sprigs
Garlic - 4 pods sliced
Oil - 2 Tspoons
Tomato ketchup - 2 tspoons
Chilly sauce - 3 tspoons

Procedure

Cut the idlies in to small cubes and place them in a microwave safe bowl.

Sprinkle little water and time cook them for about 2 minutes. This would make idlies little soft and fresh.

Take a non stick frying pan, add little oil and heat on a low flame.

Once oil gets heated, add onions, green chillies, curry leaves, garlic slices. Saute them well until onions turn translucent.

When onions turn little transulucent, add ginger garlic paste and stir them well. Now add the steamed pieces of idly.

Stir the mixture to coat the idly pieces with all the spices. Allow the pieces to fry for about 5 minutes.

Sprinkle salt, chilly powder and pepper powder and stir the mixture properly.

Now add chilly sauce and tomato ketchup and toss them. Stir well to coat the pieces well. Switch off the stove and transfer them in to a serving plate and serve hot!!