Idli

Ingredients:

Rice (idli rava) – 2 glasses

Urad dal – 1 glass

Baking soda – ½ spoon

Poha – 2 spoons

Water

Oil

Salt

Procedure:

Soak rice and urad dal separately in water for 3-4 hrs.

Grind both of them and mix them into a bowl. Keep the batter for overnight for fermentation at warm place.

Check the batter in the morning it will raise half the size.

Now add the salt and baking powder in the batter and mix properly.

Take the idli plates and grease them with little oil.

Take one big spoonful of mixture and pour them into the plate.

Steam the idlis for 10 mins and remove from heat.

Serve the hot idlis with groundnut chutney or tomato chutney or with any powders (like curry leaves, roasted chana dal).

Black eye bean idli

There was half packet of black eye bean left at my home. I was planning to prepare some curry with it but later after soaking the beans thought why not try idlis with it. I grinded the beans but first tried with only one plate of idli :P But they turned out to be really good. So I emptied all the remaining batter :D

Hope you'll try this at home :)

Ingredients:

Black eye bean – 1 cup

Cumin seeds – 1 spoon

Wheat rava – 3 spoons

Grated carrot – ½ cup

Water

Oil

Salt

Procedure:

Soak the black eye beans for 3-4 hours and grind it into paste.

Take a bowl and add the bean paste, wheat rava, salt and cumin seeds with sufficient water.

The batter should be in idli consistency.

Take the idli plate and grease with oil. Take ½ spoon of grated carrot and place in the idli plate.

Take 1 big spoon of idli mixture and pour in the plate.

Steam the idlis for 10mins and serve hot with your desired chutney J

Oats and couscous idli

Ingredients:
Oats - 1 glass
Couscous (or broken wheat) - 1/2 glass
Grated carrot - 1 cup
Green chillies - 1
Coriander leaves - 2 spoons
Water - 1/2 cup
Curd - 1/2 cup
Mustard seeds - 1 spoon
Salt
Oil - 1 spoon

Procedure:
Heat a tawa and dry roast the oats and couscous separately until you get nice aroma.
Then remove from heat and allow for cooling.
Heat another pan and add oil. Once oil is heated add mustar seeds, green chillies and grated carrot.
Once the raw smell of carrots is gone remove from heat.
Grind the oats to a coarse powder.
Now take a vessel and add the oats, couscous, curd, water, salt, corainder leaves and the seasoning.
Mix all the ingredients well and the batter consistency should be like normal idli batter.
Now take the idli plates and grease the plate with oil and pour the batter.
Pressure cook for 10 mins or until idlis are cooked and remove from heat once they are cooked.
Serve with any desired chutney.