Plain Idly

Ingredients:
Idly rice - 3
methi seeds - 1 tsp
salt to taste
cupswhole white urad dal - 1cup(with out black skin).
Method:
To make idly batter :
Soak the Urad dal, methi seeds for 5 to 6 hrs.
Soak the idly rice for 2 hrs.
Grind the Urad dal and methi seeds first in wetgrinder to a nice foamy batter with water as needed.
Take it in a big container. Add salt to it.
Then grind the soaked rice with water as needed to a fine batter.
Now mix both the grind urad dal and rice together. The batter should be like a pancake batter consistency.
Mix the batter nicely and leave it to ferment and puff, overnight so that the batter will be ready for doing idlies the next day.
After the batter is fermented and raised mix it again and keep it in fridge.
Take it out an hour before doing idly.
Keep the idly vessel or pressure cooker with 2 cups water in it and heat.
Grease the idly tray with a drop of oil and rub it and pour a certain amount of the batter in them and keep it in the cooker and steam cook it without whistle for 10-12 mins.
Open the lid after steam is gone, let it warm a bit and remove the idly carefully.
Serve hot with coconut chutney, sambaar or any type of chutney.

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