Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, idli-south indian soft pillowy steamed lentil rice cakes. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Idli-South Indian soft pillowy steamed lentil rice cakes is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Idli-South Indian soft pillowy steamed lentil rice cakes is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
Idli, or Idly, are soft steamed rice cakes made from a fermented batter of idli rice and urad dal (split black lentils). Grease the molds on an idli tray with cooking oil. Pour enough batter into each mold to fill it three-fourths full.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook idli-south indian soft pillowy steamed lentil rice cakes using 6 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Idli-South Indian soft pillowy steamed lentil rice cakes:
- Get 3 cup idli rice
- Get 1 cup Poha (beaten rice)
- Get 1 cup urad dal (split white lentils)
- Get as per taste salt
- Get as per taste water
- Take as needed oil for greasing
It is a steamed dish made out of a fermented rice and urad dal batter and goes great with chutneys, gravies and sambar. It's basically steamed rice cakes made from unique fermented rice and white lentils batter called idli batter. If you are a South Indian, well Indian, you are expected to know how to make idlis at home, the perfect way. Idli is a very nutritious and tasty South Indian rice cake.
Steps to make Idli-South Indian soft pillowy steamed lentil rice cakes:
- Clean, wash rice and soak it along with poha with enough water. Clean, wash and soak urad dal in enough water. Rice and daal both should be soaked seperately and minimum for 5 hours. When rice and dal are ready for grinding, strain the water from dal and reserve it for grinding. Grind dal to smooth fluffy consistency using the reserved dal water. Pour the dal batter in container having more than double the volume of the the batter. Drain the water from the rice.
- Add rice in a grinder and grind it to a smooth paste. If water is required for grinding rice, use little reserved dal water. Mix both the batter very well. you may add little water if the batter is too thick. The batter should have medium pouring consistency that coats the back of the spoon. Cover the batter lightly and keep it in a warm place to ferment for minimum 8 hours. Do not cover the batter with tight lid. After the batter is fermented well, it will rise to more than double in volume and
- Add salt to taste and gently swirl the batter, do not over mix it. Add some water and allow it to boil in either pressure cooker or idli maker/steamer Grease the idli mold and pour the portion of batter in each mold. Place the mold in the idli steamer or pressure cooker. Alow it to steam for approx 12-15 minutes. Check the idlis with tooth pick, if it comes out clean, then yummy spongy idlis are ready. Take out the mold and let it rest for 3-4 minutes. Scoop out the idlis from the molds. Enjoy
It is steamed which gives it additional softness and tastes amazing with any Sambar,Coconut Chutney, Chana Chutney or Molagapodi (a powder of Dried Red Chilies,Sesame seeds,lentils and salt) which I have posted earlier. Idli- Steamed rice and lentil cakes, Vegan and gluten free Idli is perhaps on of the most famous and staple and of south India. Being a true blue South Indian, I have great love for this dish. I mean, I love this dish so much that I can have it at anytime of the day without complaining. IDLI (read id-lee) is our version of steamed rice cakes.
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