Recipe: Perfect Sorghum and finger millet idli

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Sorghum and finger millet idli. Sorghum and finger millet idli #Millets - A healthy breakfast. Sorghum and finger millet idli #Millets - A healthy breakfast. In a bowl add urad dal, sorghum/ cholam millet, idli rice and poha together.

Sorghum is also called as the big millet and looks similar to Quinoa.

Its an extremely healthy grain and is also gluten free.

Here is how to do Sorghum millet dosa.

You can cook Sorghum and finger millet idli using 7 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Sorghum and finger millet idli

1. Prepare 1/2 cup of Finger millet.

2. Prepare 1/2 cup of Sorghum or Jowar.

3. You need 1 cup of Black gram.

4. You need 2 cups of Idli ravva.

5. It’s as required of Water-.

6. Prepare as required of Ghee/ oil-.

7. It’s 1 teaspoon of Salt.

We will need equal quantity of urad dal, parboiled rice (idli rice) and sorghum millet (vellai cholam) for this recipe.

Millet idli recipe using Foxtail millet /navane.

Idlis are the most popular breakfast of Southern India.

It is steamed, healthy, balanced breakfast to start the day.

Sorghum and finger millet idli step by step

1. Soak the millets for six hours and black gram for four hours..

2. Grind them for about 20 to 30 min in a wet grinder by adding water to get a thick batter, thicker than that of dosa..

3. Transfer the batter into a shallow vessel, put salt and add idli ravva..

4. Divide the batter into two equal halves, one half keep in the fridge and the other half is left outside for fermentation..

5. Before preparing the idlis mix the batter (in the fridge) with the one left outside. Donot stir much while mixing as stirring leads to hardened idlis..

6. Now grease the idli trays with ghee/ oil..

7. Take a small ladle, pour the batter on to the tray to get round shaped idlis..

8. Keep the trays in idli container. Let them cook for 10 min on medium flame, and continue cooking for another 5 min on sim flame..

9. If idli container is not available, a cooker can be used without putting the ‘weight’. Cooking time is same..

10. Tastes good with coconut chutney..

Best food for the growing kids too.

Generally idli is made of rice and urad dal, in this particular recipe I am using millets to make the idli.

Pour batter in mould and steam idli in a pressure cooker or steamer (if using steamer the remove whistle).

Ragi idli is a healthy variation of rice idli.

It is a nutrient rich breakfast which is soft, fluffy and delicious with wonderful color, texture and taste.