Multi-Lentil Pancakes with Onions and Tomatoes

Accompaniments are not supposed to be the main attraction during a curry performance. They are designed to highlight and enhance the curry, by being either a utensil that wraps around the sauce-y offering or by being a starchy bed to mop up the spicy-hot flavors. However, this particular bread, a favorite in Tamil home kitchens, refuses to play a subservient role; its dominant hot chiles, pungent onion, and tart-sweet tomato shine through the soft interior and crispy exterior. To tame the s