Idli

Ingredients:
Rice – 1 cup
Urad dal – 1/3 cup
Methi seeds – 1 tbspn
Puffed rice – ¼ cup

Cooking Method:

• Wash and soak rice and urad dal separately. Add methi seeds urad dal. Soak them for 6 hours min.
• Grind them separately as well. Before 5 min of grinding add puffed rice to urad dal. Urad dal mixture should be grinded finely and rice should be like semolina structured ( not fine).
• Then mix them and keep overnight.
• The mixture turns bubbly. Then you can put in the idli maker and steam them for 10 mins. Serve hot

Things to be considered:

• Before making idlis make sure the batter has turned bubbly. If not add 1 or 2 pinch of cooking soda (bi-carbonate soda).
• Rice and urad dal should be soaked separately otherwise the idli will not be good.

Serving Suggestions:

Serve with Sambar and coconut chutney.