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How to make soft idlis with idli rice-southIndian idli recipe

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Prep Time 6 hours 59 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Course: Breakfast
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • Idli rice - 4 cups heaped
  • Urad dhal - 1 cup heaped
  • Vendhayam or fenugreek seeds - 2 tsp
  • water and crystal salt - as needed.

Method
 

  1. Soak both rice and dhal separately with vendayam in it.
  2. Soak for four hours then grind dhal first and then the rice.
  3. Grind to a smooth paste.
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  4. Add salt beat the batter with hand to required consistency.
  5. Ferment the dough for 8 hrs minimum.
  6. The consistency of the fermented batter should be like this.
  7. Stir the batter lightly and now you are ready to go for steaming.
  9. Now softest idlis are ready to be served.

Notes

I steam idli's using cotton cloth which enhances the softness.The cloth material that I usually use is thin dhoti cloth which is best suited for steaming idli's.
The batter can be put in the fridge without adding salt and we can add salt when we keep outside for fermentation.
Usually aval or steamed rice are added for increasing softness.I added only rice and dhal which gave me perfect idli's.
Usually I add a fistfull of crystal salt for 4:1 ratio.