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.

Rava Oats Idly

Ingredients:

Instant Oats -1 cup /1 part

Sooji / Rawa / Bombay Rawa / Semolina – ½ cup / ½ part

Curd / Yoghurt – 1 cup

Beans – 10 chopped finely

Carrot – 1 grated finely

Urad Dal / Ulundam Paruppu – 1 tsp

Mustard Seeds / Kaduku -1 tsp

Green Chilli – 1 chopped finely

Ginger -1 tblspn grated

Oil -1 tblspn + for greasing idli plates

Baking Soda -1 tsp

Salt to taste

Method:

In a dry pan and oats and roast it till nice aroma comes , it will take around 3-5 mins..Allow this to cool down and powder it finely.

Now take this in a mixing bowl and add in rawa and mix well. Pour in curd and mix well..

Add in enough water and mix well till it gets smooth consistency.

Now heat oil in a pan and add in mustard and urad dal..Add in green chilli and ginger and mix well.Add in beans and carrot and cook for 5 mins.

Now add this to the batter and mix well..Add in salt, baking soda and mix well.

Take the idli stand and grease the plate with oil.Take a ladleful of batter and fill those plates.

Now stack it together and steam it for 15 mins.Remove this and allow it to cool down.

Now remove the idli with a spoon and store in a hot case.

Serve this with chutney or as it is..

Basic Rava Upma

Ingrediants:

Rawa-1 cup

Onion-1 chopped finely

Green chilli-2 chopped

Curry leaves-5

Asafoetida(kayam)-1 tsp

Mustard seeds(kaduku)-1 tsp

Cumin seeds(jeerakam)-1 tsp

Channa dal(kadala parupu)-1 tblspn

Urad dal(ulunda parupu)-1 tblspn

Curd-1 cup

Ghee-2 tblspn

Salt to taste

Coriander leaves or spring onion for garnishing

Method:

In a sauce pan heat 2 cup of water and let it come to a good boil.

Roast the rawa in some ghee till you get nice aroma and set it aside.

In a kadai add ghee and crackle some mustard seeds,cumin seeds,Channa dal,Urad dal,Asafoetida for 1min.

Add in onions,green chilli,curry leaves and cook for 1min.

Add in the boiled water,curd and mix well,let it come to a good boil.Season with some salt.

Slowly add in the rawa and mix well.Cover it and Simmer it for 15 min.

Garnish with coriander leaves.Serve it with Spicy coconut chutney.