Saturday, March 31, 2012

KANCHIPURAM IDLY


Clean & soak together 1/2 cup boiled rice, 1/2 cup raw rice & 1cup whole urad for 1 hour, grind to coarse rava consistency. Add salt & set aside to ferment for 5hrs. Heat 3 Tbsp. oil and pour 1 spoon oil into the fermented batter, mix well. In the remaining hot oil, splutter 1tsp. each of mustard, urad dal, crushed cumin, crushed pepper, 2tsp. chana dal, 1small piece ginger grated, 5 - 6 cashews broken and 3 dry red chillies split into bits. Add this seasoning to the batter. Also add 2Tbsp. grated coconut , mix the batter thoroughly but lightly. Grease small steel tumblers and pour batter upto just 1/2 the tumbler. Steam idlies on medium flame as usual, for 10mins. [ Can check if they are done by piercing centre of idlies with a sharp wooden skewer/stick ]. Serve hot with chutney / sambar.

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