Millet Idli/Dosa

6:03 PM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments

Millets are very healthy and easily digestible. Its very good to include millets in our daily foods. There are many varieties of millet available, i have tried idli/dosa with samai(little millet), kudiraivali(barnyard) and varagu(kodo). 

Ingredients:

• Samai rice - 4 cups
• Urad dal - 1 cup
• Left over rice/cooked rice - 1/4 cup or poha - 3 tsp

Method:

• Soak rice and dal separately in water for 4 to 5 hours. 
• Grind dal first followed by rice. Add cooked rice while grinding samai. 
• If you are using poha, soak it along with samai.
• Let it ferment for 8 hours or overnight.
• Add salt to the fermented batter

Idli

• Grease idli plates and pour ladleful of batter in each hole of the plates.
• Steam it for 10 minutes. Serve hot with chutney and sambar.

Dosa

• Heat dosa pan and grease it, skip the grease part for non-stick pans.
• Pour ladleful of batter on the pan and spread it in circle. Flip and cook on both sides.
• Serve it hot with chutney or sambar.

Notes:
You can even try mixed millets, for example 1 cup samai, 2 cups varugu and 1 cup kudiraivali.