Idli

Serving: 4 persons

Time : 30 minutes

Ingredients:

Rice 2 cups (long grain rice)
Urad dal 1 cup
Salt

Stepwise Instructions: Soak urad dal and rice in water separately, for 10-12 hours. Drain the excess water and grind it together in a mixer/grinder to a consistency of condensed milk. Allow it to ferment for addition 10-12 hours at room temperature. It is important to keep it covered during fermentation.

Next day morning add little water and salt. The consistency at this stage should be like "bhajia batter" Pour this batter into concave surfaces of Idli stand. Add little water to pressure cooker and place idli stand into it. Place the lid on cooker and heat for 15-20 min on medium heat. (remove the whistle of pressure cooker)

Take the pressure cooker off the heat and allow it to cool for above 10 minutes. Remove the lid and take the idli stand out. Separate idlis from the stand using spoon.

Serve Idlis with coconut chutney and/or sambar.