Cake Idli

Ingredients For Making Idli

• • Par boiled rice - 3 cups
• • Black grams - 1 cup
• • Rock salt - 3 teaspoons
• • Cooking soda - ¼ teaspoon

Ingredients For Making Cake Idli

• • Lefts over sour idli batter (3 days old) - 1/3 cup
• • Bengal gram dal - ¼ cup
• • Green gram dal - ¼ cup
• • Oil - as required
• • Coriander leaves - a few
• • Curry leaves - 2 sprigs
• • Crushed ginger - 2 teaspoons
• • Coconut (grated, fresh) - 1 tablespoon
• • Mustard seeds - ½ teaspoon
• • Green chillies (chopped) - 2
• • Cumin seeds - 1 teaspoon
• • Curd chillies - a few

Method To Prepare Cake Idli

• 1. Soak both Bengal gram dal and Green gram dal together and grind to coarse rawa consistency.
• 2. Mix it with the sour idli batter with little more salt.
• 3. Add finely cut coriander leaves, curry leave, crushed ginger and grated fresh coconut.
• 4. Heat 2 table spoons of oil and season with mustard and cut green chillies.
• 5. Pour over dough with ¼ teaspoon of cooking soda.
• 6. Mix well and steam as big plate idli. Serve hot with powdered mixture.
• 7. To make powdered mixture follow this - Fry little mustard along with 2 Teaspoons of cumin seeds, 1 tablespoon of black gram dal, curd chillies, curry leaves till its colour is changed. Pound coarsely.