Recipe: Delicious Foxtail millet idli

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Recipe: Delicious Foxtail millet idli Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Foxtail millet idli. Foxtail Millet Idli Recipe is a healthier version of the idli, this recipe is made only with foxtail millets and urad dal. Millets are called as a group of highly variable small seeded grasses. They are cultivated in different forms and as the end product you will get them as a grains.

Thinai or Foxtail millet is rich in fiber and minerals and is also good for people of all ages.

Here I have used idli rice with Thinai arisi or Foxtail Millet to give a soft texture.

Millet Recipes with step by step pictures and video.

You can have Foxtail millet idli using 5 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Foxtail millet idli

  1. It’s 2 cups of foxtail millet.

  2. Prepare 1 cup of urad daal.

  3. It’s 1/2 cup of cooked rice.

  4. It’s To taste of Salt.

  5. You need As needed of Oil.

Millet recipes are getting very much popular these days.

It is a healthy alternate to the regular rice.

Generally parboiled rice is used for making idlis.

I have made idlis with all millets and they are equally soft, porus and tasty like the rice ones.

Foxtail millet idli step by step

  1. Soak foxtail millet for 5 hours. Seperatly soak urad daal..

  2. Grind urad daal to a smooth paste. Grind millet coarsely. Add little water while grinding millet to get perfect grinding..

  3. Grind rice to a smooth paste, add salt mix well. Keep batter for fermentation over night. If you are staying in a cooler place warm the tawa and keep batter above it. Or switch on oven for a few seconds switch off and keep batter inside the oven..

  4. Put batter in greased idli plates. Steam for 12-15 minutes. Serve hot with chutney and ghee..

Using sharp spoon, remove idli from idli plates.

Foxtail millet idli is ready, serve hot with chutney or sambar.

Its very simple, esay to make & Perfect for weight loss.

Foxtail millet idli Last week I tried thinai idli recipe for the first time using fermentation method.

Earlier i tried an Instant Foxtail millet idli which was a super flop.