Though I am a big fan of regular Idlies, I just wanted to try the same Idli concept with wheat rava. Since few weeks, I have been planning to try this out by myself. I substituted Idly rice ( Idly Rava ) with Wheat rava, the one that we generally use for making Uppuma. Looking at the idlies, its difficult to find out that its made out of wheat rava. As these idlies don't have any rice, I am sure that it should be a good tiffin item for diabetic people and a very healthy breakfast for all ages. With a side of good spicy chutney, these mild yellow colour idlies would definitely be added in your regular breakfast menu or dinner menu.
Ingredients
Wheat rava - 3 Cups
Urad Dal / Ulatham paruppu / Minna Pappu - 1 Cup
Fresh Coriander Leaves - 1 Handful finely shredded
Salt - To Taste
Fresh Curd - 1 / 2 Cup
For Tempering
Olive Oil - 2 tsp
Hing / Asafoetida - 1 dash
Mustard Seeds - 2 tsp
Jeera - 2 tsp
Curry Leaves - 5 or 6 crushed
Black Pepper Powder - 1 tsp
Turmeric Powder - 1 tsp
Method
- Soak the wheat rava and the urad dal separately for 3-4 hours.
- Grind the Urad Dal to a fluffy consistency like how you grind for a normal Idly.
- Now mix the Urad dal batter with the wheat rava in a big container thoroughly.
- Add required amount of salt to the Idly Batter and keep it for fermentation.
- After its fermented, do tempering process with the ingredients as mentioned above with little oil and pour them over the batter.
- Add a handful of finely shredded coriander leaves on top of it.
- Add 0.5 cup of fresh curd to the Idly batter and mix very well.
- Now add drops of oil into the Idly Moulds and spread the oil over the Idly plates. Pour the idly batter over the Idly moulds upto the level equally on all the moulds.
- Cook all the Idlies in a Idly cooker for about 10-12 minutes.
- Check whether the Idlies are fully cooked inside. After its cooked, allow the cooker to cool down for few minutes.
- Then open the Idly plates and carefully take out the Idlies from the Idly moulds one by one.
- Serve the Idlies with any spicy chutney.
Variations
You can add finely shredded carrot, peas to the Idly batter and serve it to kids.
You can add a cup of sour curd to the Idly batter and can make the Idlies instantly without the process of fermentation. But from my experience, if you make these Idlies with a slightly fermented batter, the idlies are softer and have enough moist content inside and not too dry.
You can make mini idlies with this batter and give it as an evening snack to kids.
Tips
Allow the Idly batter to ferment atleast for few hours before making the idlies.
Don't grind the batter too watery. Grind the batter to the correct Idly consistency.
