Steps to Cook Speedy Barnyard Millet Idli

Hello everybody, welcome to our recipe page. Today I will show you how to make a distinctive dish, Barnyard Millet Idli. This is one of my favourite food recipe, this time i will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Barnyard Millet Idli Recipe. Millet idli dosa has been in my to try list for a long time. Millets like kuthiraivali, samai, varagu can be easily replaced for rice and I know it will turn out good.

You can cook Barnyard Millet Idli using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Barnyard Millet Idli

1. Prepare 2 cups of water.
2. It’s 1 tbsp of chana daal.
3. Make ready to taste of salt.
4. Take 1 cup of barnyard millets.
5. Prepare 1/2 cup of urad daal.
6. Make ready 1 tsp of fenugreek seeds.
7. Make ready of grated carrot for garnishing.

When you grind the pre-soaked black gram lentils the batter should be airy, fluffy and light.Barnyard millet also known as kuthiraivali arisi (tamil)/ odalu (telugu) is a millet variety that is small in size, white in color, round in shape bigger than semolina/ sooji.Barnyard millet is rich in fiber, iron and is also less in calories making it healthier than rice.Barnyard millet with a taste similar broken rice can be used to prepare variety of dishes like idli, dosa, pulao, upma.

Barnyard Millet Idli instructions

1. Soak barnyard millets over night and also urad dall, Chana Daal, fenugreek seeds for 3 to 4 hours.
2. Grind barnyard millets coarsely. Grind urad dall, chana daal, fenugreek seeds together into a thick batter separately..
3. Add millets batter and urad Daal batter and mix well and leave it for 8 hours for fermentation..
4. When the mixture fermented add salt and take the greased Idli stand add grated carrot and pour required quantity of batter into the moulds.
5. Steam them for 20 minutes or until done.
6. Serve hot with peanut chutney and sambar..

But the difference I noted in barnyard millet idli is, it is a little denser than our regular rice idli.Lentils, fenugreek seeds and millet (as a replacement to rice).The key step in making really soft idli is grinding the lentils to perfection.

Idli is a popular South Indian breakfast usually made with rice and lentil.I can have idli for all three meals in a day or even for snacking :).The recipe I'm sharing today is for Kuthiraivali idli which is another variation for the usual idlis as I have used barnyard millet instead of rice.For this recipe I wanted to try adding more millet then rice.It came out extremely soft and tasty.