Ingredients 

• Lentils(Toor dhal) - 1 cup
• Red chillies - 2 or 3
• Asafoetida- small piece
• Grated coconut - 3 spoons
• Tamarind - small piece
• Coriander leaves
• Salt 

• Soak Toor dhal in water for 45 minutes, grind it with chillies and asafoetida into a coarse semisolid batter. 
• Mix it with grated coconut, chopped coriander leaves and salt. 
• Soak tamarind in water, strain well and boil this solution with salt. 
• Make small balls out of the dhal batter and put a few balls in the boiling tamarind water. 
• When the dhal balls are fully cooked, they rise up to the surface. 
• Remove those balls and add the remaining balls for cooking.