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Home » Breakfast Recipes » Nuchinunde/Nuchina unde/Steamed Lentil balls served with Neer Majjige/Spiced butermilk

Nuchinunde/Nuchina unde/Steamed Lentil balls served with Neer Majjige/Spiced butermilk

Apr 17, 2016 · Modified: Mar 6, 2021 by Priya_Srinivasan ·

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Nuchina unde, a specialty breakfast from Karnataka. Nuchina means 'Broken' and unde means, 'Balls'.  These are nothing but steamed lentil balls. The lentils are soaked and then ground with necessary spices and then steam cooked. It sounds similar to the paruppu usli we make. I refered to Smitha's recipe here, she has used dill leaves along with other spices, i have omitted that and followed the recipe as such. 
I served the steamed balls along with neer majjige/spiced buttermilk. Oh we loved taking a bite of the lentil ball and sipping yummy majjige. The combination was out of the world, even my fussy elder one loved it.  It is a simple recipe, do try and let me know how you liked it.

Ingredients
¾ cup tuvar dal/Split pigeon peas
¾ cup chana dal/gram dal
5-6 nos red chilies, round variety
1 inch piece of ginger
¼ cup of shredded carrots (optional)
handful of coriander leaves
2 strands of curry leaves
1 large onion, chopped fine
2 pinches of hing
¼ teaspoon haldi
¾ teaspoon salt or to taste
Method
  • Wash and soak both the dals together for 2-3 hours. Drain well, add chilies and ginger to this and pulse it to make a coarse paste in a mixer, without adding any water.
  • The dal mixture has to be coarsely ground, not to a fine paste, that will alter the taste and texture of this dish pretty much. If the dals are soaked well, you wont be needing any water at all. Just take care not to run the mixie continuously, just pulse.
  • Remove the coarsely ground dal to a wide bowl, add chopped onion, chopped coriander leaves, shredded carrots, hing, haldi and salt. Mix well.
  • Make ping-ping sized balls of the mixture and steam cook it for 10 minutes. Once done, remove it from the steamer and serve warm with majjige huli/more kuzhambu or Neer majjige.

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  1. Srivalli

    April 17, 2016 at 2:31 pm

    Sounds very interesting Priya..never tried something like this..surely worth experiencing it I guess...

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  2. Gayathri Kumar

    April 17, 2016 at 4:06 pm

    With all the goodness of dhals, this is one guilt free snack to enjoy!!

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  3. Suma Gandlur

    April 17, 2016 at 4:34 pm

    Guilt free and nutritious meal option.

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  4. The Pumpkin Farm

    April 17, 2016 at 5:08 pm

    new recipe for me...and u always open doors to such...

    Reply
  5. Pavani

    April 17, 2016 at 6:01 pm

    Very nutritious and delicious dish. Looks great.

    Reply
  6. MySpicyKitchen

    April 18, 2016 at 1:28 am

    Lentil steamed unde looks healthy and delicious. I like the setup for the ingredient shot.

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  7. Nalini's Kitchen

    April 18, 2016 at 2:54 am

    Such a healthy and filling unde,sounds new to me..

    Reply
  8. Srividhya

    April 18, 2016 at 3:12 pm

    Reminds of doodhi muthiyas.. great option to try it with lentils. love it.

    Reply
  9. Priya Suresh

    April 18, 2016 at 7:01 pm

    Healthy nuchinunde, such a guilt free snacks to munch definitely.

    Reply
  10. cookingwithsapana

    April 18, 2016 at 8:54 pm

    Steams lentil balls looks tasty and of course healthy too.

    Reply
  11. Harini R

    April 19, 2016 at 12:30 pm

    Absolutely guilt free snack!

    Reply
  12. Kalyani

    April 20, 2016 at 5:50 am

    as they would say in kannada " Thumbaa Chennagidhe" (its v v nice)... Can i mention that ur pics are looking alive this BM, resembling Sangeetha Khanna's pics :-)))

    I make this but without onions. carrots is a healthy addition...LOVE this with Mor kozhambu

    Reply
  13. Smruti Ashar

    April 20, 2016 at 11:00 pm

    Such a healthy and yummy dish you got there. Loved the way you made them in an idli stand!!

    Reply
  14. Sandhya Ramakrishnan

    April 25, 2016 at 4:26 pm

    Very yummy recipe here with all the dals!

    Reply
  15. Chef Mireille

    May 07, 2016 at 3:12 am

    sounds like an awesome combo

    Reply

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