Rava Idli (Recipe 1)

Rava Idli recipe

Ingredients for Rava Idli:

  1. Rava – 2.5 cups
  2. Curd – 1 cup
  3. Salt – as needed
  4. Green chillies – 4
  5. Curry leaves – as required
  6. Bengal gram (Kadala parippu) – 1.5 spoons
  7. Coconut oil – 2 small spoons
  8. Ginger – 1 piece

How to prepare Rava idli?

  1. Add a little water and salt to the curd and soak the rava in it for 4 hours.
  2. Finely chop ginger, green chillies and curry leaves and add to the batter.
  3. Sputter mustard seeds and Bengal gram in oil and add to the batter.
  4. Now mix the flour well and make rava idlis.
  5. You can decorate your rava idlis using cashew pieces and grated carrot.

Rava Idli (Recipe 2)

Ingredients for Rava Idli (Recipe 2):

  1. Roasted semolina (rava) – 1 cup
  2. Oil – As required
  3. Mustard – 1 small spoon
    Black gram (Urud) dal – 1 small spoon
  4. Onion chopped fine – 1
    Ginger chopped fine – ¼ inch piece
    Green chillies chopped fine – 1
  5. Sour curd – 1.5 cups
  6. Coriander leaves chopped fine – 1 big spoon
    Soda powder – A pinch
    Salt – For taste

How to prepare Rava Idli (Recipe 2)?

  1. Heat oil and sputter mustard and urad dal.
  2. Add ingredients no: 4 to it, sauté it, and turn off the flame.
  3.  Allow this mixture to cool off completely.
  4. Beat the curd and add it to this mixture.
  5. Add ingredients no: 6 followed by semolina, and prepare the batter for rava idlis.
  6. Allow the batter to rest for half an hour.
  7.  Steam cook your idlis in an idli maker.
  8. Serve with any chutney of your choice.

Courtesy: Vanitha Magazine February 1-14, 2010

Rava Idli (Recipe 3)

Rava idli

Ingredients for Rava Idli (Recipe 3):

  1. Oil  2 big spoons
  2. Mustard – 1 small spoon
  3. Onions chopped fine – ¼ cup
    Ginger chopped fine – 1 small spoon
    Green chillies chopped fine – 4
    Curry leaves chopped fine – 1 stem
    Salt – For taste
  4. Semolina (rava) – 1 cup
  5. Curd – 1 cup
    Water – 1 cup
  6. Baking soda – ¼ of a small spoon

How to prepare Rava Idli (Recipe 3)?

  1. Heat oil in a pan and sputter mustard seeds.
  2. Sauté ingredients no: 3.
  3. When onions turn brown, add semolina, mix well, and take them off the flame.
  4. Allow it to cool completely.
  5.  Add curd and water, and allow it to rest for half an hour.
  6.  Add baking soda, and if needed, excess water too.
  7.  Pour the batter into the moulds of an idli maker.
  8. Steam cook them to get delicious rava idlis.

Courtesy: Vanitha Magazine April 2-15, 2022

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