Recipe CookBook

Rava Idle

Cooking time : 30 Minutes

Serves 4

Ingredients:

½ cup sooji /rava (semolina)

¼ litre sweet yoghurt

3 tsp. ghee

2-3 green chillies

½ inch ginger

2 tsp. grated coconut

5-6 cashew nuts

8-10 curry leaves

¼ tsp. mustard seeds

salt to taste

Method:

1-First, prepare the seasoning by spluttering mustard seeds and curry leaves in a little hot ghee.

2-Add the green chillies to it and then stir in the sooji and chopped cashew nuts.

3-Roast until sooji is brown. Leave it to cool in another vessel.

4-To make the idli batter, add yoghurt, grated coconut and salt to the sooji and keep aside for ½ an hour.

5-Grease the idli moulds with ghee (not oil) and pour in the batter.

6-Do not fill it to the top. Steam for about 20 minutes and then demould as you would a regular idli.