Rava Idli

Ingredients:-

• Rava/Sooji - 1 Cup
• Sour Curd - 1/2 Cup
• Baking Soda - 1/2 Tbsp
• Green Chilly (Chopped or grind into fine paste) - 4
• Curry/Corriander Leaves - 1 Tbsp
• Water,Salt - As Needed

To Temper:-

• Mustard - 1 Tbsp
• Urad Dal - 1 Tbsp
• Chanan Dal - 1 Tbsp
• Cashews - as Needed
• Oil and Ghee - 1 Tbsp

Method:-

• Heat 1 tbsp ghee in a non-stick pan. Add semolina and sauté, stirring, on low heat till it turns a light brown. 
• Transfer it into a bowl and allow to cool. Add yogurt and mix well. 
• Chop coriander leaves and green chillies and add. 
• Heat 2 tbsps ghee in a small pan and add mustard seeds and add broken cashewnuts. Put the pan back on heat and sauté till the cashewnuts are golden. 
• Switch off the heat and add curry leaves. 
• Stir and add this tempering to the idli mixture and mix. 
• Add salt and water, little by little, to make an idli batter of dropping consistency. 
• Add Baking Soda to the batter and mix well. 
• Keep aside the whole for half an hour, so that the batter raises well..

• Grease the idli moulds with Oil and keep a cashew upside down in the center. 

 

• Heat water in a steamer.
• Pour the batter into the idli moulds and steam for 10 minutes. 

• Unmould and serve hot with any chutney.

I served it with Coconut chutney.