Idlis are healthy & nutritious food as they are steamed. Being fermented they are good for the body too.
Idli recipe with idli rava
4 cups idli rava
1 cup urad dal (spilt and skinned black gram lentils)
water for soaking
Making Batter:
In a bowl, soak the urad dal in enough water for 4 to 5 hours.
Soak the idli rava in enough water for 1 hours.
Drain the water from the urad dal and keep it aside.We will use some of this water for grinding the batter.
Drain the water gently by squeezing from the idli rava and discard.
In a grinder, add urad dal and little of urad dal strained water and grind to a smooth batter.If the batter appears too thick, add some more water.Add idli rava to this mixture and let it aside for fermentation & rising of the batter for a minimum of 12hours or overnight.
The next day the batter would have fermented and tripled.
Making Idli:
Grease or brush the idli moulds with oil.
Keep a pan or steamer on the stove with some water.
Add little salt & Stir the batter gently.
Pour the batter in the moulds.
Place the idli stand in the pan.Cover with a lid and steam for 10 to 12 minutes till a toothpick inserted in the idli comes out clean.
Coconut chutney preparation:
Take grated coconut or fresh coconut
Dry roast it along with little jeera, dry chillies/green chillis, Bengal gram, peanuts,salt.
Let it cool and then grind them by adding water to make it semi liquid consistency
You can temper this with little jeera, mustard seeds, urad dal, curry leaves and dry red chillies.
Serve hot idlis, you can serve idli With coconut chutney, sambar or idli podi.
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