Monday, August 2, 2010

Idly

The basic,simple,easiest,healthy food/breakfast in India is idly.I think every women knows how to prepare idly in home,this is my process of preparing idli recipe,i often prepare for Breakfast.

U can also use Idlimix(in stores) to prepare instant idly.get idly rava from grocery store for this process.



Ingredients:

2cups-Idli rava(bansi idli rava)
1 tsp_fenugreek seeds
1 cup-urad dal
salt to taste

Directions:
Take a bowl Soak urad dal,fenu greek seeds in the water,in other bowl soak idli rava in water for 5 hrs.wast these two items till u get clean water from them.

Now grind or blend urad dal by adding required quantity of water,till it becomes soft batter.it takes 5 min to blend.
Take idly rava,squeeze out water from rava by pressing with hand,add this rava to urad dal batter.make sure water is completly squeezed out from entire rava.
Now add salt to the batter,mix it well.cover and keep aside for over night or 6 hrs
undisturbed ferment.
Before u prepare idly mix the batter well,check the salt,take the idly mould, apply oil/ghee/water with the fingers to the moulds.
pour the batter to moulds using hand or scoop and steam in the rice cooker for 25 min or till its done(u hear the sound).
u can check by inserting fork or toothpick ,if tooth pick comes clean idlys are done

Serve hot with chutney,sambhar,karam podi

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