I hate idly.. But I love Dosa. This was me before my chennai life. Two years in chennai made me an Idly lover. It is an easy to make break fast. I am proud to make good idly's consistently. I dont mind sharing the secret with you. Afterall sharing yeilds to happiness..:)
Ingradients
1)Idly rice - 2 cups
2)Urd Dal - 1 cup and a tbl spoon extra
3)Salt to taste
Preparation
Soak Rice and Urd dal in water 6 to 8 hours in seperate bowls. Grind the urd dal. and rice seprately. Urd dal mix has to be be as smooth as possible. After grinding you can see some bubbles in the top.If you love sooooft idlys then grind the rice like urd. If not leave very little particles in it. mix well both batters together. The batter consistency should not be too loose and too thick. I know your doubt how will I know what it means too loose and too thick.. ;-).
Let me try to help you out. When I grind urd dal in mixy the level of water would be 1/3 rd of rice higher or two inch high. For rice it just the water level 2 cm above rice.
If you didnt get it Dont worry. Trust your feeling. If you feel the batter is thick , definitly not ,ok go ahead with that is my suggestion.
Keep the batter overnight for 10 hours. Add sault to taste. And keep for 1hr.
Apply oil in the idly maker and pour the batter into it. And -- it for 10 -15 minutes in medium flame. And your idly is ready.
It is 6.22 A.M 3rd Feb 2012. My Idly batter is waiting for me. And Tomato is still in fridge. Wow! I am so happy to cook today. Bye bye..
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