This document describes the development of composite idly podi powders that are more nutritious and economical than traditional versions. Four formulations were created with varying amounts of indigenous ingredients like millets, pulses, and herbs. A sensory evaluation found that tasters preferred the powder made with 8g of ingredients (T4). This version used the most indigenous ingredients like barnyard millet, pearl millet, horse gram, and herbs. It was also found to be the most cost effective at Rs. 13.76 per serving. The conclusion is that T4 is the best composite idly podi powder developed.

1. HORSE GRAM AN INDIGENOUS PULSE
IN COMPOSITE IDLY PODI

2. INTRODUCTION
• In today’s busy world no one gives importance to the most
important meal of the day.
• For a working woman, it takes so much of will power to get into the
kitchen and cook when you yourselves are tired and hungry.
• Idly powder is a coarse powder mixture of ground dry spices that
typically contains dried chilis, urad (bean), chickpea, and
sesameseeds. Tamilians traditionally use idli podi as a condiment
on idlis, dosas and other South Indian dishes. Idli podi is eaten as a
dipping condiment
• There are family version of podi with Sesame seeds.
• Idli Podi using millet and herbs could give better flavour and enrich
the product. Millets are indigenous to many parts of the world.

3. OBJECTIVES
To prepare an idly
podi which
•Tasted better
•Looked better
•Nutritionally better
•Had better flavour
•Is Economical
METHODOLOGY
The area of study is Bharathidasan Government
College for Women Puducherry.
The present developed product had indigenous
millets like barnyard millet and pearl millet and
pulse like horse gram and herbs like
thuthuvalai, vallarai , basil modakathan and
curry leaves and spices like garlic, pepper, red
chilies , asafoetida and rice .
All the ingredients were mixed well at different
quantity and various method for the
preparation of Composite Idly Podi.
Other additives like spices are mixed and salt
have been added and for 7-8 min to prepare
the Podi. These dried herbs leaves were dried
in sun for two days at are packed in Plastic
bottles

4. SAMPLES
• Among the four developed products ie.
Composite idly powder using 6gm of
indigenous ingredients TI
• Composite idly powder using 8 gm
indigenous ingredientsT2
• Composite non vegetarian idly powder
with sennakunni using 6gm of indigenous
ingredients T3
• composite non vegetarian idly powder
using 8 gm indigenous ingredientsT4

5. Ingredients T1 T2 T3 T4
Barnyard millet 5g 5g 5g 5g
Pearl millet 5g 5g 5g 5g
Black gram 5g 5g 5g 5g
Bengal gram 5g 5g 5g 5g
Black pepper 2g 2g 2g 2g
Salt 1g 1g 1g 1g
Oil 5ml 5ml 5ml 5ml
Horse gram 5g 5g 5g 5g
Red chilly 2g 2g 2g 2g
Asafotida 2g 2g 2g 2g
Tulasi 6g 8g - -
Vallarai 6g 8g 6g 8g
Thuduvalai 6g 8g 6g 8g
Curry leaves 6g 8g 6g 8g
Mudakkathan 6g 8g 6g 8g
FORMULATION OF COMPOSITE IDLY PODI

6. ORGANOLEPTIC EVALUATION
• Sensory evaluation is a scientific
discipline that analyses and measures
human responses to the composition of
food and drink, e.g. appearance, touch,
odour, texture, temperature and taste.
• Hedonic scale – this test is used to
check various attributes of the product
like colour, texture, flavor, appearance
and overall acceptability can be
obtained. There are 9 point scale and 5
point scale to check the attributes.
• The final samples were subjected for
sensory evaluation to a group of 25
semi trained panelists for the evaluation
of colour, texture, taste, aroma and
overall acceptability of the the product
on a 5 point hedonic scale

7. COST EFFICACY
• The cost of the products were calculated and it was
found that Composite idly powder
(vegetarian)using 6gm of indigenous ingredients TI
costed Rupees 9.60
• Composite idly powder using 8 gm indigenous
ingredients(vegetarian)T2 costed 13.2 rupees and
• Composite non vegetarian idly powder with
sennakunni using 6gm of indigenous ingredients
costed 10.2 rupees and T3 composite non
vegetarian idly powder using sennakunni and 8 gm
indigenous ingredientsT4 costed 13.76.
• The ordinary idly powder costed . Therefore it was
found that the composite idly powder vegetarian
and non-vegetarian were both economical with all
the indigenous ingredients
CONCLUSION
Composite non
vegetarian idly
powder using 8 gm
indigenous
ingredientsT4 is the
best.
Daily use of herbal
ingredients adds
value functionally.