Bajra Idli

Ingredients

• • Bajras/Kambus - 2 cups
• • Par boiled rice - 1 cup
• • Red gram dal/Thuar dal - 1 cup
• • Rock salt - 3 teaspoons
• • Oil - 3 tablespoons
• • Cooking soda - ¾ teaspoon
• • Mustard seeds - ½ teaspoon

Method

• 1. Soak bajra and rice together for 4 hours, in enough water.
• 2. Soak dal separately for 1 hour.
• 3. Grind dal to smooth frothy paste and bajra rice, mixture to coarse rawa consistency.
• 4. Mix both together with salt.
• 5. Allow to ferment for 15 to 20 hours.
• 6. Next day pour hot oil which is seasoned with mustard seeds to the batter along with soda.
• 7. Mix well and steam idlis as usual.
• 8. Serve hot with onion chutney.