Categories: Idli
Ingredients
- Rava – 2 cups
- Green chillies – 2 (minced)
- Sour curd – 2 cups
- Onion -1/2 (finely chopped)
- Oil – 2 tblsp
- Cilantro - 3 stalks (finely chopped)
- Curry leaves - 6 leaves
- Salt - to taste
- Cooking/Baking soda - 1/4 tsp
- Urad dal - 2 tsp
- Bengal gram dal - 1/2 tsp
- Mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp
- Cashew nuts - 1 tblsp
- Ghee - 2 tblsp
Directions
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Roast the rava and cashews in the ghee. Mix it with sour curd and keep aside for 10-15 minutes.
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Heat oil in a small pan, temper mustard seeds, chopped curry leaves, urad dal and bengal gram dal.
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Once the dals are nicely cooked add the onions and green chillies and saute for 2 minutes.
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Pour this over the rava-curd mixture.
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Add cooking soda, salt and chopped cilantro to the above mixture and mix everything well. Add little water if the batter is too thick.
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Grease the idli plates with few drops of oil and pour the batter.
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Steam it for 15 minutes like idlis. Serve with spicy pudhina chutney and/or sambhar.
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Tips
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- Add a pinch of baking soda to get spongey idlis.
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- You can also make grits idli, cornmeal idlis or semiya idli using the same procedure.
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