Idli

Idli is another delicious dish, served with samber or chutney and is also very popular food from South India. It is usually made up of two ways; one is from rice flour and other is with rava ( sooji or semolina). The texture of the idly made using rava also turn out very soft and nice and is very easy to prepare.

Ingredients

• 1 cup fine rava
• 1 cup thick sour well beaten curd
• ½ cup water
• ¼ cup grated onion or vegetables as per your choice(optional )
• 6 cashews broken
• Cilantro handful
• Eno fruit salt
• Salt
• Ghee
  

For tempering

• 1 teaspoon mustard seeds
• 1 teaspoon urad dal
• 1 teaspoon channa dal
• ½ teaspoon asafoetida
• 3 green chillies chopped fine
• Small piece ginger chopped fine
• 10-12 curry leaves
• Oil

Method :

1. In a skillet, heat oil or ghee and add mustard seeds till splutter .Next add urad, channa and cashews and fry till gold,taking care not to burn. Next add ginger, asafoetida, green chillies and saute for 2 minutes
2. Add the rava and fry well till it leaves a nice aroma and turns golden in color. When rava done remove from heat immedietly.
3. Add curd, onion, cilantro and required salt to the rava and combine well. Now slowly add water and make it to a batter of idly batter consistency.There should not be any lumps in the batter. Add eno fruit salt and mix well.
4. Let the batter rest for 10-20 minutes.
5. Pour into idli plate and steam for 10-12 minutes. Serve rava idli hot with chutney.