Ingredients 

• Masoor dal (orange in color) 500 grams
• 1 big onion - chopped
• Cilantro - chopped
• Salt - according to taste
• Green Chillies - also according to taste
• Tamarid - thick paste sort for chatni
• Jaggery - equal amount to tamarid
• Red Chilli powder - according to taste
• Salt for chatni - according to taste

• Soak masoor dal over night. Grid it carefully with less water and green chillies. You should have a thick paste sort (do not grid to smooth paste), which should enable you to make balls. It should not stick in your hand when you make balls. 
• To this coarse paste add salt, chopped onions,cilantro. 
• Now, if you have corn cooker,you can make balls out of paste and steam them in corn cooker or else in a big mouth vessel, pour water and tie a new cotton cloth to the vessel's mouth.Bring water to boil.Then prepare balls of masoor paste and steam them with a closed lid.

For Chatni  

• Take hand full of thick paste of tamarid
• Add very little water 
• Add equal amount of jaggery to tamarid paste 
• Add salt according to taste 
• Add red chilli powder also according to taste 
• Add few cilantro leaves if you want 
• Bring to just one single boil .