Sooji-Vermicelli Idli

(from Nandini’s recipe box)

Categories: Idli

Ingredients

  • 1 cup rava
  • 1 cup semiya_(vermicelli)
  • 2 cups of slightly sour curds.
  • 1 inch ginger piece.
  • 2 or 3 green chillies.
  • curry leaves to taste.
  • 1/2 spoon mustard seeds
  • 2 tablespoons of refined oil.
  • 1/2 spoon urad dhal
  • a pinch of asafoetida
  • salt to taste

Directions

  1. Keep the kadai on the stove and pour the oil in it.

  2. When heated, put in the mustard and allow to splutter.

  3. Then put in the urad dhal and asafoetida and then put in the chopped green chillies and thin slices of ginger. When it starts to become a light brown, now add the rava and the semiya and fry to a light brown colour.Now bring it down from the stove, add the salt and mix thoroughly. Next, churn the curds to a thick consistency and then pour it into the fried mass. Immediately put it into the idly stand and steam for exactly 5 minutes. (without weight) your rava semiya is now ready to eat with green hot chutney as a side dish.

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