Rava Idli

Rava Idli is a South Indian breakfast dish made using semolina. Learn to make soft, hotel style idli at home using my recipe. Here is how to make it.

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoon Vegetable Oil
• ½ teaspoon Mustard Seeds
• ½ teaspoon Cumin Seeds
• 1 teaspoon Chana Dal
• ¼ teaspoon Hing
• 10-12 Curry Leaves
• 1 teaspoon Ginger (finely chopped)
• 1 teaspoon Green Chillies (finely chopped)
• 1 Dry Red Chilli (broken)
• 4-5 Cashew Nuts (crushed)
• 1 cup Rava
• ½ cup Yogurt
• 2 tablespoon Carrot (shredded)
• Salt (to taste)
• 1 teaspoon Eno Fruit Salt

Instructions

1. Heat vegetable oil in a pan.
2. Once the oil is hot, add mustard seeds, cumin seeds and chana dal and fry for a few seconds.
3. Add hing, curry leaves, ginger, green chilli, dry red chilli and cashew nuts and fry until cashew nuts turns slightly brown.
4. Add rava and roast it on low flame until slightly browned.
5. Remove the rava on a plate and let it cool completely.
6. Add curd and carrot in the cooled rava and mix well.
7. Add some water to make idli like batter.
8. Cover the batter and keep aside for 15 minutes.
9. Check the consistency of the batter once again.
10. Add more water if required.
11. Grease a idli pan and add water in it.
12. Let the water come to a boil.
13. In the meanwhile, add Eno fruit salt in the batter, mix well and then pour the batter in the greased molds.
14. Steam the idli for 10 minutes. Remove the idli from moulds and serve hot.