Category: Breakfast , Idly , SouthIndian , Tiffin , Vegetarian
Idli is a south Indian savory cake popular throughout India. The cakes are usually two to three inches in diameter and are made by steaming a batter consisting of fermented black lentils (de-husked) and rice. The fermentation process breaks down the starches so that they are more readily metabolized by the body.
Ingredients
- Par boiled 3 cups
- Urad dhall 2.5 cups
- Dry ginger powder 1 t.spoon
- Pepper 1/2 t.spoon
- Cumin seeds 1/2 t.spoon
- Hing 1/4 t.spoon
- Curry leaves
- Cooking Oil 6 t.spoons
- Ghee 2 t.spoons
- Salt 1.5 t.spoons
- A pinch of baking soda
Method
- Rinse and soak par boiled rice and urad dhall in water for 2 hours.
- Grind the above coarsley and add hing and salt and a pinch of baking soda to this.
- Keep it overnight so that this will ferment.
- Fry pepper, cumin seeds, and curry leaves in oil and ghee.
- Add this to the flour. Add dried ginger powder and mix everything together.
- Coat a flat vessal with oil, and the idli flour into this and pressure cook for 45 minutes in low heat without pressure cooker weight.
