Rava Idli

Rava Idli is very simple and healthy recipe. It's not only healthy but very easy to prepare. Now a days there are readymade instant idly packs are available in the market, it requires only adding some water and steaming. However, nothing can beat the taste of authentic healthy homemade idli, even it also doesn't take much time, as it needs no grinding no fermentation like normal idli's. Today I'm sharing how to prepare soft and spongy Rava Idlis by following this simple Rava Idli Recipe.

Ingredients

1 cup Rava (sooji/semolina)
1/3 cup Curd
Salt as required
Coriander leaves handful
6-7 Cashew nuts(broken)
1/2 cup grated Carrot
1 tsp eno fruit salt
1 tbsp oil
1 tbsp ghee
1/2 tsp Mustard seeds
1/2 tsp cumin seeds
pinch of Asafoetida/hing
1 tsp Urad dal
2 Green chilli chopped
1' Ginger finely chopped
2 springs Curry leaves
1 cup + 2 tbsps water


Instructions

1. Take a frying vessel, heat oil and ghee, add mustard seeds when they splutter, add cumin seeds, urad dal, curry leaves, red chilli, cashew nuts and toss them until they turn light brown.
2. Add rava and mix well.
3. Roast it on medium flame until it turns light brown and nice aroma comes from rava. Stir continuosly otherwise rava will get burn. and take it in a separate bowl and keep it to cool.
4. In another bowl, add curd, chopped green chillies, ginger, salt, roasted rava and water mix well with out forming lumps.
5. Add grated carrot, chopped coriander and mix well. keep this batter aside for 15 min.
6. Pour 2 glasses water in a steamer and heat over medium flame. Grease the idli plates.
7. Now add eno fruit salt into the batter and mix well for 1 min. After this you observe bubbles in the batter.
8. pour batter in greased molds and steam it on medium flame for 10-15 min don't heat on very high flame or low flame.
9. After 15 min, remove the molds from steamer, and after 2 min, remove preaped idlis from it ans serve hot with chutney.