Idly- Varieties

#Idly [ #Idli ] is an ideal food for everyone from small children to toothless old people as it is steam cooked and easily digestible. Idli is the most nutritious and complete food in the world.

Idli is a nutrient power house. It has carbohydrates, Proteins, Fats, Enzymes, Amino acids and Fiber. A normal idli contains 40 calories and has no saturated fat and no cholesterol. If you take a single idli you will be getting 2 gm of protein, 2 gm  dietary fiber and 8 gm of carbohydrate.

Idli is the traditional dish of Tamil Nadu, India. The main ingredients are Boiled rice [ Idli rice ], black gram and a small amount of fenugreek. The rice and black gram with fenugreek are soaked separately for 2 to 3 hours and ground into a batter using a wet grinder. Then the batter is mixed together adding enough salt and allowed to ferment for 6 to 8 hours or overnight. Then steam cooked to get nice fluffy and soft idlis.

The Hot idlis are served with variety of #Chutney  and #Sambar.

Idli can also be prepared from rawa, broken wheat and millet.

Three important things to be remembered to make soft idlis. They are

• Ratio of rice to urad dhal
• the method of grinding 
• fermentation

Here links to idli recipes are listed.

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Idli Varieties
Idli maavu [ Idli Batter ]	Idli making [ How to cook Idli ]	Kancheepuram Idli
Cholam Idli [ Sorghum Idli ]	Kambu Idli [ Pearl millet Idli ]	rawa Idli
Rawa buckwheat Idli	Broken wheat Idli	Kuthiraivaali Idli -Barnyard millet idli
Idli upma [ idli stir fry ]	Podi Idli

Steamed Dishes
Idli from Pesarattu dough	Browntop millet Bread	Green gram sprouts cake
Samai spicy masala bread [ Little millet masala bread ]	Samai sweet bread [ Little millet sweet bread ]	Kuthiraivaali vella Sweetbread [ Barnyard millet Sweetbread ]
Kuthiraivaali Spicybread [ Barnyard millet Spicybread ]	Varagu Spicy Bread [ Kodo millet Spicy Bread ]	Browntop Millet Sweet Bread

For accompaniments

Chutney Varieties


Sambar Varieties


For spicy N flavorful powders [ Podi ]

Idli Milagai Podi


Idli Milagai Podi with Flax seeds



For other breakfast/dinner recipes

Tiffin Recipes