Idlis (Idly, Rice Cake)
Ingredients
- 1 cup urad dal (black gram or black lentil)
- 2 cups rice/rice rawa or idli rawa (flour)
- ½ spoon methi seeds
- Salt to taste
Method
- Soak urad dal along with methi seeds for 4 hours. Soak rice or idli rawa in another bowl for 4 hours.
- Grind soaked urad dal in mixer. Make a fine paste with minimum water.
- Grind soaked rice/idli rawa coarsely with minimum water.
- Mix the two pastes together in a large bowl (since may overflow afterwards).
- Keep the mixture at warm place for 6 to 8 hours.
- Add salt and mix well.
- Oil the idli stand and pour the mixture in it.
- Put the cooker/large container with water on the gas/stove and heat. When the water is boiling, put the idli stand in it.
- Steam the idlis in a large cooker (without the whistle) or large container for 20 minute or till done.
- Remove the idlis from stand and eat with chutney and sambhar.
Ingredients
- 2 table spoon soya (soy) granules
- 2 medium size boiled potatoes
- 1 medium size finely chopped onion
- 2 table spoon coriander leaves
- 2 to 3 bread slices (brown or multi-grained bread preferred)
- 1 tea spoon finely chopped ginger
- 1 tea spoon finely chopped garlic
- 1 tea spoon finely chopped chilies or chili powder (optional)
- Salt to taste
- 1 tea spoon sugar
- 1 tea spoon lemon juice
- 2 table spoons bread crumbs
- 2 table spoons of edible refined oil
- 1 tea spoon turmeric
Method
- Add a pinch of salt to two cups of boiling water in a pan and add soya granules to it.
- Keep this aside for 7 to 10 minutes. Drain the water out of soya granules and squeeze water out of them.
- Mash the potatoes.
- Take one table spoon of oil in a wok. Put the wok on gas stove. Add onions in it and sir fry for 3 to 4 minutes. Add ginger, garlic, chilies (or clili powder) and stir fry. Add turmeric to it. Add salt and sugar. mix well.
- Add soya granules in the wok and mix well.
- Add the mashed potatoes to the wok and mix well.
- Stop the heat.
- Add coriander leaves.
- Crumble the bread slices and mix them in the wok. Add lemon juice. Make the firm dough of the entire mixture.
- Make small patties out of this dough. Roll them in bread crumbs.
- Shallow fry the patties.
- Patties can be used for making sandwiches or can be eaten as such with tomato ketchup.