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Anyone from India, or knows about Indian cooking-do you have a recipe using idli flour?

I'm in the US, and am learning Indian cooking. I found idli flour, ground rice flour and urid dahl mixed together. I found recipes for a steamed sour dough pancake sounding thing made with whole rice and urid dahl that was soaked and then ground, but nothing for the flour. I found a site that sells microwave idli steamers, though, so I know I can get kitchen utensils. If its just used for breakfast cakes, what are they eated with?

Update:

I found lots of recipes like this first answer- but they call for par boiled rice and whole urid dahl. I have idli FLOUR made with rice flour and dahl flour, already mixed. do I just add everything to this and proceed? or are there other recipes?

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  • Shahid
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Idli

    Ingredients:

    Long grain rice 4 cups

    Uncle Ben's Converted rice 2 cups

    Urad dal whole 1 cup

    Salt to taste

    Method:

    Soak the long grain rice for 6-7 hours and urad dal for an hour.

    Dry grind the Converted rice.

    Grind the soaked rice to a coarse paste & urad to a fine paste.

    Mix all three, add salt and let it ferment atleast for a day.

    Steam them and serve hot with Chutney or Sambhar.

  • 1 decade ago

    Kanjeepuram Idli

    Ingredients

    Par boiled 3 cups

    Urad dhall 2.5 cups

    Dry ginger powder 1 t.spoon

    Pepper 1/2 t.spoon

    Cumin seeds 1/2 t.spoon

    Hing 1/4 t.spoon

    Curry leaves

    Cooking Oil 6 t.spoons

    Ghee 2 t.spoons

    Salt 1.5 t.spoons

    A pinch of baking soda

    Method

    Rinse and soak par boiled rice and urad dhall in water for 2

    hours. Grind the above coarsley and add hing and salt and

    a pinch of baking soda to this.

    Keep it overnight so that this will ferment.

    Fry pepper, cumin seeds, and curry leaves in oil and ghee. Add

    this to the flour. Add dried ginger powder and mix everything

    together.

    Coat a flat vessal with oil, and pour the idli flour into this

    and pressure cook for 45 minutes in low heat without pressure

    cooker weight.

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