How to make soft, good idlis?

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This is my recipe for people living abroad, as we all get the same kind of parboiled idli rice and white Urad dhal. :)-

1. Soak 4 cups of parboiled idli rice in warm water for 4-5 hours.
2. Soak 1.75 cups of white ural dhal in water and place this in fridge for 5 hours.
3. Grind and rice and urad dhal one after other, separately in the blender (mixie).
4. Mix the ingredients by hand and add salt.
5. Leave the mixture in a tall vessel (allowing space for the batter to rise)overnight.
6. Next day, you would see that the mixture has risen and you can make best idlies.
7. If you are using the batter for a week, add 2-3 tbsps of gingelly oil in the batter also to get nice idlies.

For those grinding in table top grinders:

1. Rice: 4 cups, Urad dhal- 1.5 cups only.

Rest of the steps are the same. Sprinking water while urad dhal is getting grinded will make the idlies really soft. (Trade secret :))

Happy Idli days!!!

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  1. Mutuelle santeSeptember 27, 2011 at 5:28 AM

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  2. SowmyaJuly 19, 2013 at 9:35 AM

    Hi Vidya. Love the blog and recepies. Will definitely try some. Looks/sounds tasty :).Keep it going.

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  3. Vidhya AruneJuly 29, 2013 at 7:40 PM

    Thank you Sowmya Jonnala:)

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