Idli recipe

This is the most healthy break fast food and easy to make and anytime snack.


Ingridients:-

1 cup Urad daal
2 cups Idli rava
Salt to taste

How to make the batter:-
1. Soak Urad daal for 4 hours
2. Wash and drain the water. Grind in a wet grinder or mixie adding very little water. Grind it to a very smooth paste.
3. Wash the Idli rava thoroughly and drain the water completely. Take a fistful of Idli rava , squeeze the water out and put it another vessel. Repeat it till you squeeze out all the water.
4. Mix the paste from point 2 and 3. Mix it well and the consistency should be thick and (it will be spongy if you have used wet grinder).
5. Leave aside the batter for 6 hrs or so to ferment ( if you have not used a wet grinder). Else the Idlis will not come spongy.
6. Once the batter is ready. Take the idli plates and apply a little oil on it so that the idli does not stick to it.
7. Take a tb spoon and place the batter in each Idli slot. Once done place it in a Idli cooker or pressure cooker for 10 -1 5 mins on med flame.
8. Once the whistle starts blowing and you can smell nice aroma of Idlis cooked switched off the cooker and wait for 2 mins. Then open the cooker and take a flat sppon to take out the Idlies
9. Serve hot with Peanut chutney or coconut chutney.

Tip: Make sure the consistency of the batter is loose and fermented if you have used a mixie to grind, else the idlies do not come out spongy.
** See my recipe for Idli chutney podi.