Kanchipuram Idly

Are you bored of making the same idly with chutney and sambhaar, and you must try this, which is easy, quick and healthy too. Although traditionally it is made by soaking the the Dhal and the Rice in a slightly different proportion and ground,  rather coarsely we can also make it with our regular Idly batter.

Healthy Kanchipuram Idlies:

Full of goodness of Black Pepper, Cumin Seeds, Ginger, Curry Leaves and a few Cashews thrown in to turn an ordinary Idly into this awesome, tasting delicacy.
Steaming them in small steel tumblers would make them come out looking like beautiful cup cakes.
See that your idly batter is really sour, as it should be very sour for this idly to taste good.

(there are no fast or hard rules in this, use the ingredients mentioned according to your taste)

                                         Look how beautiful they look:  just like cup cakes

They should be cut in to half, and mulagai podi mixed with sesame oil should be applied liberally on them and they should be left soaking  for sometime in it before eating them.


Ingredients:

Some black pepper roughly crushed

1 or 2 tsps. of Cumin seeds also roughly crushed

A few cashews broken into small pieces

A small piece of ginger finely chopped

Some curry leaves

Hing /Asafoetida
A little sesame oil and 1 or 2 tsps. of ghee

Salt would already be there in the idly batter, if it not, then add to taste.

Method:

Take some oil and a little bit of ghee and heat it in a pan

Now after it is hot put the crushed cumin seeds, crushed pepper and fry it for a second, then add the ginger, cashews, the curry leaves and hing/ asafoetida

Fry everything together just for a second.

Switch off the gas. Now pour the whole fried mixture into the idly batter, and mix well

In the meantime pour some water in your idly pan, close the lid and set it up on the stove to boil

As soon as the water starts boiling turn it to low flame/Simmer, and start pouring the idly batter into small tiny cup cake size tumblers( which are easily available in the market), which have been greased with some sesame oil.

Remember not to fill the tumbler up to the brim, always leave a little space for the batter to rise.

Arrange all the idly tumblers in the idly cooker/ regular cooker, and close the lid and let them steam for about 15- 20 minutes.
 In case you don't have these tumblers you can use any cooker separator and grease the vessel and pour the batter into it and steam. It would come out like this:

A beautiful round cake, you can cut them into squares

After a few minutes take the small idly tumblers out from the cooker and slide them gently with the help of a butter knife.

Your yummy Kanchepuram Idlies are ready to eat or should I say to gobble

The only accompaniment for this type of Idly is the South Indian Chilli Powder, also known as Gun powder or Mulagai podi. This chilli powder is available in all the big supermarkets (in case you don't know what it is or how it is made)

 This Idly can also be made by using Brown rice, which would make it more healthy.

There would be no difference in the taste.

         

Fed up of cooking the same boring way, then come here and cook out of the box.