Easiest Way to Prepare At Home Bajra Idli (Kambu/Pearl Millet Idli)

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Easiest Way to Prepare At Home Bajra Idli (Kambu/Pearl Millet Idli) Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Bajra Idli (Kambu/Pearl Millet Idli). Grind the kambu/ pearl millet batter just like regular idli/ dosa batter then ferment it and use it to make dishes like idli, dosa, uttapam and many more items. Yes Kambu idli is soft, spongy and lightly grey in color (color from pearl millet) that is super delish to taste and super healthy as well. Great recipe for Bajra Idli (Kambu/Pearl Millet Idli).

The idli batter recipe that I'm sharing below comes out.

Using a blender grind dal to a fluffy consistency, followed by poha and grains.

Pearl millet idli, dosa recipe without rice ( Kambu idli dosai in Tamil, Bajra Idli dosa in Hindi, Sajjalu Idli dosa in Telugu, Sajje idli dosa in Kannada, Kambam Idli in Malayalam) with step by step pictures and video.

You can cook Bajra Idli (Kambu/Pearl Millet Idli) using 4 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Bajra Idli (Kambu/Pearl Millet Idli)

  1. It’s 2 cups of Millet Pearl / Bajra / Kambu -.

  2. It’s 2 cups of Rice Idli -.

  3. It’s 1 cup of Urad dal -.

  4. Prepare 2 tsps of Salt - (or as needed).

After a long time, I am happy to share a millet recipe in my website.

I love to consume millets in the form of idli, dosa, adai or upma at least once in week either for.

Then grind kambu + idli rice with salt and little water to a smooth batter.

Add to the ground urad dal and mix well.

Bajra Idli (Kambu/Pearl Millet Idli) step by step

  1. Wash pearl millet, idli rice and urad dal each separately for 2-3 times.

  2. Soak each of them separately for 4-5 hours in fresh drinking water.

  3. In a mixer, first grind the urad dal with the soaked water into a nice, smooth batter. Ensure the batter doesnt become watery.

  4. Take out the urad dal batter in a big vessel..

  5. In the same mixer jar, grind idli rice with the soaked water into a coarse batter. The batter should be thick.

  6. Take out the idli rice batter into the same big vessel..

  7. In the same mixer jar, grind pearl millet with the soaked water into a coarse batter. The batter should be thick.

  8. Take out the pearl millet batter into the same big vessel..

  9. Mix all the three batters nicely. The batter shouldnt be too thick or too thin. It should be in a thick pouring consistency.

  10. Add the required salt and mix well.

  11. Keep this batter aside for fermentation for atleast 8-10 hours (preferably overnight).

  12. Grease the idli moulds with a drop of oil and pour a ladle full of the batter into each of the moulds.

  13. Steam the idlis for 10 minutes.

  14. Switch off and wait for atleast 5 minutes before demoulding the idlis.

  15. Serve with sambhar, chutney or idli chutney powder.

There has to be atleast some kind of batter in my fridge for quick fixes.

The little one is such a dosai addict and she can even have dosai for all the three meals in a day 🙂 If you have never made Idli/Dosai using Millets you can start by making this easy yet flavorful Bajra/Pearl Millet dosai.

Pearl Millet Idli is a perfect healthy food.

If you are a diet conscious or diabetic patient ,then this steamed ildis are perfect to replace rice.

Not only idli you can make kambu dosa's too with the same batter.