Thursday, January 22, 2009

Rava Idly

Rava Idly / Semolina Idly is a kind of Idly served in TamilNadu restaurants. It is much easier to prepare and a delicacy to serve along with sambar or tomato chutney.
I tried making this Rava Idly many times and failed to get that fluffiness. I got something like uppuma:)
Then got the recipe from a old magazine. They insist on grinding urid dhal.Many people do not use urid dhal. But it gives a wonderful texture and it resembles much like original Idly.



Ingredients:

Rava - 2 1/2 cup
urid dhal - 1/2 cup
curd - 1/2 cup
water - 1 cup
To temper:
oil - 2 tbsp
cashew - 10
ginger - 1 inch
green chilli - 2
mustard - 1 tsp
channa dhal - 1 tbsp.
curry leaf - 1 brig
cilantro - a handful
salt - 1 1/2 tsp

Method:
Soak the urid dhal for 1 hour.
Dry roast the rava till you get a nice aroma.
Grind the urid dhal to a fine paste and mix it with the rava along with salt, curd and yeast.
I didn't have a sour curd, so I added a pinch of yeast to the batter for fermentation. There is no need to add yeast during summer. Do not add a lot of water.
The consistency should be like a pan cake mix / urid dhal vadai batter.
Keep it inside oven or any warm place and let it ferment for 8 hours.
Just before making idly, we need to add the tempering.
Chop the green chilli, cilantro, ginger and curry leaves.
Heat a pan with 1 tbsp oil .Add the channa dhal and mustard.
Let the mustard crackle.
Then add the cashews , chopped green chilli, cilantro, curry leaves and ginger.
Fry them for a while and mix it with the fermented batter.
Coat the idly vessel with little oil and pour the batter.
Steam cook the idly for 10 minutes (Do not put 'cooker-weight' if you are using a pressure cooker).
Take the idly vessel out , keep it out and scoop the Rava idly after 2 minutes .
Rava Idly is ready.

Serving suggestions:

We can microwave the idly before serving.
Serve Rava idly hot with tomato chutney or sambar.
Makes 14 fluffy Rava idly.

Rava Idly has black gram (Urid dhal) . So it goes to Legume affair hosted by Srivalli and Susan.

15 comments:

Varsha Vipins said...

Coincidence..Malar posted the same now..:P
Lovely idli VIki..:)

Malar Gandhi said...

Eeeeei Sweet heart same pinch! What a coinsidence...we both posted rawa idly!!! Nice idlies...

sriharivatsan said...

Looks fluffy dear...Have to give a try..

Swapna said...

This sounds easy & tasty.. Looks great.
You may like this in my blog.

Cham said...

This one sounds different and looks so good...

Premyscakes said...

Looks yummy. will give a try for sure.

Neha said...

Nice idli's. I too ake rava idly ,once a month only, but hey come market like only, without urad daal too. can check out..

Raks said...

sounds good with urad dal!new to me and looks good too!

Jaishree Iyer said...

Looks yummy n great...

Adlak's tiny world said...

Our family's favrt idli.. looking nice and fluffy.

Vijitha said...

Lovely idlies! yummy! looks so yummy.

vidhas said...

Nice idly. I make it in a differetn way, next time i will follow this. i used to add carrot in this

Anonymous said...

Hi Viki,

Last saturday, i made rava idly. But it came very hard. I didn't add yeast, as I had sour curd and also, I used coarse rava. is it a problem?

Vikis Kitchen said...

Hi Janani , I made the same way above. I got it fluffy.
I used coarse rava only.
Grease the idly plate before pouring.

Anonymous said...

Let me try this weekend again. Thx for the reply.

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