IDLI - A healthy food

 Idli has to be top most comfort food for all south Indians,  

Idlis are extremely low calories, fat free, full of proteins and probiotic. 

This porous, fluffy, white disc could easily be the healthiest food.

Ingredients :

• 3 Cup Rice
• 3 Cup Boiled Rice
• 1 Cup Urad Dal
• 2 tsp Fenugreek seeds
• Water as required
• Oil
• Salt as per taste.

Recipe:

• Wash rice and urad dal separately until the water runs clean and add fenugreek seeds to the rice.

• Soak it in water for 4-5 hours.
• Once your rice and urad dal have soaked then drain them and grind them again separately.
• Boiled rice is also grinded with soaked rice or with urad dal.
• The dal have to be ground into a very smooth paste, Add water accordingly, Grind the rice and boiled rice needs just slightly coarser.
• You have got both the texture, You mix them in large pot and mix them properly.
• Make sure that the consistency is thick.

• Keep the batter in warm place to ferment for about eight hours or overnight.
• Keep large plate below batter pot because the fermented batter can overflow from pot.

• Once your batter is fermented, you will see it, The batter is looking puffy and will rise quit a bit.

• Add salt into batter and mix well.

• Grease the idli stand with oil and take a ladleful of batter and fill the idli molds. 

• Add 1/2 glass water in the idli steamer and let it boil.

• Put the idli stand inside and close the lid.

• Let the steam build for 10-15 mins.
• Switch off gas and open the lid. 

• Wait till the steam is released before you take all idli molds out.
• Wait for another 5 mins. and them use the spoon to scoop the idlies out.

• Serve warm idlies with Coconut chutney and Sambhar.

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