Recipe: Yummy Mint flavoured Kodo Millet Idlis

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Mint flavoured Kodo Millet Idlis. Kodo Millet Idli Recipe / Varagu Idli Recipe. Cooking with millets series has made me think about new recipes which can be made using them all the time. I have share thinai idli recipe before, but it has rice in them.

Pour a little amount of water and add salt.

Grind to a fine thick batter.

Transfer the batter into a large vessel and keep aside for overnight.

You can cook Mint flavoured Kodo Millet Idlis using 10 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Mint flavoured Kodo Millet Idlis

1. It’s 1 cup of Kodo Millet.

2. It’s 1/4 Cup of whole Urad dal.

3. You need 1 tsp of methi seeds.

4. It’s 2 handfuls of poha (soaked).

5. Prepare to taste of Salt.

6. You need as required of Oil- for greasing the Idli plates.

7. You need For of green paste-.

8. Prepare 1/4 Cup of Mint leaves.

9. It’s 2 of Green chillies.

10. It’s 1/4 inch piece of Ginger.

Kodo millet is a good substitute to rice or wheat.

Protein, fiber, and mineral content are much higher than the major cereals like rice.

It can be cooked just like rice or ground into flour.

It provides balanced nutrition, unlike polished white rice.

Mint flavoured Kodo Millet Idlis instructions

1. Wash the Kodo millet and Dal and soak them for 5 to 6 hours….Add the methi seeds also when soaking the Dal and millet…..

2. Similarly the poha should be washed and soaked half an hour before grinding the batter..

3. Make the green mint chutney paste with the ingredients mentioned and keep aside..

4. After the millet and Dal are soaked grind them along with the poha to a smooth batter with little water and pour in a big vessel.Put salt and mix well..

5. Keep it for fermentation.After the batter ferments add the mint chutney paste in the batter and stir well check salt add if required..

6. Now grease the Idli plates with little oil.Pour the batter into the plates In the meantime heat the Idli cooker and pour water in it.Keep it ready for streaming the idlis..

7. Now take the Idli plates carefully and put inside the cooker/idli steamer potand steam it for 10 to 12 minutes..

8. Check if done and remove it carefully..

9. When cool remove the idlis from the plates..

10. Serve hot with chutney of your choice, thokku,molgapodi or sambhar and hot kaapi..

Listed below are some of the popular health benefits of Kodo.

Kodo millet helps keep diabetics under check, helps lose weight, reduces joint pains and has got lot of other health benefits.

It is a very healthy dish especially for diabetic people.

Kodo millet idli is a perfect, healthy and ideal replacement for regular rice idli and can be included in your routine breakfast or dinner.

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