During my visit to Lucknow, I chanced upon my relative's age old receipe of making idlis.
While i was served it with garlic chutney, I prefer mine with the usual coconut chutney.
This is one of the simplest things you can make, when there is a sudden news of guests coming over.
Preparation Time : 4 mins
Cooking time : 4 mins
* as per microwave cooking. Cooking on gas can take upto 8 minutes
Ingredients:
- Finely chopped vegetables (carrot,beans, capsicum, mushroom and baby corn)
- Finely chopped garlic
- Finely chopped fresh curry leaves
- Mustard seeds
- Chana daal - 2tbsp
- Urad Dhuli daal - 2 tbsp
- Suji - 250 gms
- Curd - 2 cups
- Eno - 2 sachets
Procedure:
- Mix suji with curd and leave for 5 minutes
- Heat olive oil in a pan. Add mustard seeds, garlic, curry leaves. When golden brown, add vegetables and stir until cooked
- Add 1/4th cup water to the suji-dahi mixture and the cooked mixture of vegetables
- Add salt to the batter
- Take a cup of batter separately and add 1/2 sachet Eno in it
- Mix and put the mixture in moulds as quickly as possible (remember the fizz of the Eno will make the idlis fluffy so do not add eno to entire mixture at one and do not delay after adding eno)\
- Cook for 4 minutes and serve it with coconut or tomato chutney. It can also be consumed with Sambhar.
Hope you can handle the sudden guests next time, a little more smoothly ;)
Idlis are ready to be served! You can garnish it with finely chopped coriand
