If you want to eat Idly and you don’t have idly batter don’t worry, you can make this tasty & soft Idlies instantly with semolina Rava/Sooji and Oats. This recipe is very easy to make and with the below mentioned easily available ingredients. This recipe has good source of nutritional values. You can serve this in a breakfast or at the dinner time with creamy coconut chutney.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup Semolina Rava or Sooji
- ¼ cup whole grain oats
- 2 tbsp. soaked Chana dal (optional)
- 1 ½ cup thick butter milk
- Salt
- ½ tbsp. ginger & green chili paste
- 1 tbsp. Lemon juice
- 1 tbsp. Eno fruit salt (for instant fermenting)
Note: This fruit salt you will get in India grocery stores.
- ½ tsp. Baking soda
- 4 tbsp. grated Carrot
- Few chopped coriander leaves
- Seasoning ingredients:
- 1 tsp. Cooking oil
- 1tsp. Mustard seeds
- Few pinches of Asafetida
- Few curry leaves
- Few broken pieces of Cashews
Procedure:
- Slightly roast and grind the Oats in a blender like a coarse Rava.
- Then slightly roast Semolina (Sooji/Rava) as well and keep it aside.
- Mix Semolina, Oats and butter milk in a wide mixing bowl and soak it for half an hour.
- Soak chana dal for an hour and drain the water from the Chana dal; keep it aside.
- Then mix salt, lemon juice, Baking soda, grated carrot, soaked chana dal and Eno fruit salt to the soaked Semolina & Oats mixture and mix all these ingredients thoroughly.
- Now add grated carrots and chopped coriander leaves to the above batter.
- Now prepare the seasoning using the oil, mustard seeds, cashews, curry leaves and Asafetida; pour this as well in the batter and mix it well.
- Now grease the idly plates with little oil, pour the required amount of batter in each section.
- Now steam them in an idly vessel or pressure cooker (without the pressure) up to 12-15 minutes.
- Serve them with your desire chutney, I like to serve with coconut chutney.
Here is the Coconut chutney recipe link: http://rekhasveggiecuisine.blogspot.com/2012/06/coconut-chutney.html
