Recipe: Appetizing Kambu / Pearl Millet Idli

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Recipe: Appetizing Kambu / Pearl Millet Idli Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Kambu / Pearl Millet Idli. 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. Kambu idli needs a spicy side dish as it tastes little bland by itself. Do try making it and kickstart you day with healthy breakfast.

Rich in iron, fibre and other minerals, pearl millet is a nutritious grain, with low glycemic index.

I try to incorporate it in the form of rotis, idlis or dosas.

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

You can have Kambu / Pearl Millet Idli using 5 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Kambu / Pearl Millet Idli

  1. It’s 1 cup of Pearl millet/Kambu.

  2. You need 1 cup of Idli rice.

  3. It’s 3/4 cup of urad dal.

  4. Prepare 1/8 tsp of methi seeds.

  5. It’s To taste of Salt.

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.

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.

Healthy Breakfast When it comes to millets I love to try any of it and you can check my blog which have some decent amount of millet recipes.

Kambu / Pearl Millet Idli step by step

  1. .Clean rice and millet and soak in water.Soak urad dal and methi seeds together.

  2. .First grind dal mix to a fine paste with some water.Transfer it to a big container..

  3. Then grind rice-millet mix finely.Transfer it to the same container..

  4. Add salt and mix the batter well.Leave it overnight for fermentation..

  5. Next morning mix the batter well, pour into idli plates and steam it..

  6. When done remove from plate and serve hot with your favourite chutney, sambar..

Kambu /Pearl millet, though I have used it before but did not try making idli with it.

So tried and hence blogging about it here.

Kambu/Pearl Millet/Bajra is a very common and abundantly available millet, because India is one of the largest producers of Kambu.

I have posted earlier Kambu recipes like Kambu Dosai, Kambu Puttu and now I going to share with you all a very healthy and tasty Kambu Idli.

Priya , Ur millet idly idea is very nice, kambu can be made a s adai also whn soaked along with black urad, green gram, toor , chanadal and very little idly rice, have u ever tried sama idly? it is called sanwa millet or bhagar.