Here is a delicious, quite filling idli recipe that can be enjoyed as a snack or the main dish. Learn how to make stuffed idli.
Ingredients:
- 2 cup semolina (suji)
- 1 cup sour curd (dahi)
- 1/2 tsp salt (namak)
- 1 tsp mustard seeds (rai)
- 10-12 curry leaves (kadi patta)
- 1 tsp meetha soda
- 2 tsp oil
For Stuffing :
- 1 cup pea seeds (matar)
- 1/2 tsp salt (namak)
- 1/2 tsp red chilly powder (lal mirch)
- a pinch turmeric powder (haldi)
- 1/2 tsp coriander powder (dhania)
- 1 tsp oil
How to make stuffed idli:
- Mix salt and dahi in suji and make a thick batter using water.
- Cover it and leave for 1 hour.
- Boil alu, peel and mash properly.
- Boil matar also and mash them.
- Heat oil in a pan and add alu, matar, namak, lal mirch, haldi anddhania powder and fry for a minute.
- Now heat oil again and crackle rai, curry leaves in it.
- Then add meetha soda.
- Add this to the idli mixture.
- Now grease idli mold with oil and put a little of the above mixture in it.
- Then put alu mixture.
- Then again put idli mixture to cover the stuffing.
- Boil 2 glass water in a pressure cooker and place idli mould init.
- Cover it and let it whistle.
- Cook at high flame for 10 minutes and then remove it from the flame.
- Open it and take out idli mould after 2 minutes.
- Serve hot idlis with coconut chutney and sambar.