Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, sorghum and finger millet idli. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Sorghum and finger millet idli is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Sorghum and finger millet idli is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
Hi dearzz, I keep thinking to give healthy and tasty recipes to you. Here is one such recipe Ragi cholam Dosa. Sorghum and millets grow in harsh environments where other crops do not grow well.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have sorghum and finger millet idli using 7 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Sorghum and finger millet idli:
- Get 1/2 cup Finger millet
- Prepare 1/2 cup Sorghum or Jowar
- Take 1 cup Black gram
- Make ready 2 cups Idli ravva
- Take as required Water-
- Take as required Ghee/ oil-
- Get 1 teaspoon Salt
As it name suggest Raagi Idli (Finger Millet Idli) is made using Raagi. It's indeed very soft and healthy and a better alternate to Rice. Chola dosai is made with sorghum millet. Sorghum is also called as the big millet and looks similar to Quinoa.
Instructions to make Sorghum and finger millet idli:
- Soak the millets for six hours and black gram for four hours.
- Grind them for about 20 to 30 min in a wet grinder by adding water to get a thick batter, thicker than that of dosa.
- Transfer the batter into a shallow vessel, put salt and add idli ravva.
- Divide the batter into two equal halves, one half keep in the fridge and the other half is left outside for fermentation.
- Before preparing the idlis mix the batter (in the fridge) with the one left outside. Donot stir much while mixing as stirring leads to hardened idlis.
- Now grease the idli trays with ghee/ oil.
- Take a small ladle, pour the batter on to the tray to get round shaped idlis.
- Keep the trays in idli container. Let them cook for 10 min on medium flame, and continue cooking for another 5 min on sim flame.
- If idli container is not available, a cooker can be used without putting the ‘weight’. Cooking time is same.
- Tastes good with coconut chutney.
Its an extremely healthy grain and is also gluten free. We will need equal quantity of urad dal, parboiled rice (idli rice) and sorghum millet (vellai cholam) for this recipe. Millets - Millets or Siruthaniyam varieties are all about today post. We can also make various dosa, idli, upma, pongal, pulao, sweets from millets, they can also be use in baking. Also known as African finger millet, red millet, ragi and very popular millet specially in Southern India.
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