Soft spongy idli-How to make-Step by step photos-Traditional tamilnadu style-Video

Cuisine Style: Tamil Nadu, South india | Cooking Time: 10-15 minutes | To Serve: 3 | Type : Breakfast | Take with : Coconut Chutney, sambar

Ingredients

• Rice – 4 cups
• Urad dal – 1 ¼ cup
• Fenugreek – 1 tbsp
• Sea Salt[Kal uppu] - 3 tbsp
• Water as needed

Preparation

• Wash and Soak idli rice, urad dal with fenugreek separately for 4 to 5 hours. Then drain water.
• In a grinder, add urad dal with fenugreek seeds & grind to smooth batter with enough water. Then transfer this batter to a bowl.
• Then add idli rice in a grinder & finely grind. Add this batter to urad dal batter mixture & add sea salt mix well
• Cover it & leave it for fermentation [approximately. 8 hours].
• Heat traditional idli kopper with water. Then wash & squeeze white cotton cloth with water.
• Then cover idli plates with wet cotton cloth, and then fill each cavity with fermented idli batter. Then steam it for 10 min.
• Then cut off heat & sprinkle water over the idils, hold the edges of the cloth, gently shake & unwrap
• Serve hot with coconut chutney and Sambar.

How to make Soft spongy idli video

How to make Soft spongy idli/ Malligai poo idly- Step by step photos

Idli rice - 4 cups

Urad dal/ ulutham paruppu - 1 1/4 cups

Fenugreek seeds-1 tbsp

Idli rice-after soaking

Urad dal-after soaking

Sea salt, kal uppu- 3 tbsp

Add urad dal in a grinder and grind to fine batter.

Urad dal / ulutham paruppu batter is ready-After grinding.Transfer this batter to a bowl

Then add idli rice in a grinder and grind to fine batter

Idli rice batter is ready-After grinding, Transfer this batter to a bowl

In a large vessel add urad dal, idli rice batter & salt mix well. Once idli batter is ready cover it, leave it for fermentation for 8 hours.

Soft spongy idli batter is ready-After fermentation

Heat traditional idli vessel with water, let it boil, cover idli plates with wet soft cotton cloth then pour batter

Fill all cavity, place it in an idli vessel, cover it and steam it for 10 min.

After steaming perfectly cooked idlis- Sprinkle 2 tbsp of water over the idlis & unwrap

How to unwrap soft idis from cloth easily:- Hold the edges of the cloth & gently shake

Almost [ ¾ th] done

Transfer idlis to a bowl

Soft spongy idis are ready, serve hot with chutney and sambar

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