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Healthy kodo millet Steamed Indian food recipe

How to make Kodo millet idli for healthy breakfast

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Course: Breakfast, Dinner
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 2½ cups Kodo millet
  • 1½ cups Idly rice
  • 1½ cups Blacl lentils/Urad dal Skin removed
  • Water as required
  • Salt as required

Method
 

  1. Soak Kodo millet for 8 hours to get a smooth batter.
  2. Soak Idli rice and black lentils separately for 2 hours.
  3. Grind Black lentils separately with enough water till it becomes fluffy.
  4. Grind Idli rice and Kodo millet together into a soft consistency.
  5. Mix both batters and add salt.
  6. Mix vigorously until everything blends together.
  7. Keep it for fermentation for 5 to 6 hours.
  8. Now the batter is ready to use.
  9. After fermentation, pourthe batter in a idli plates and steam using the idli steamer.

Notes

  • Millet needs to be soaked for several hours to get a smooth batter.
  • Millet batter ferments faster than normal rice batter. So 5 to 6 hours is enough. Otherwise, the batter will end up sour, if you plan to refrigerate it for several days.
  • You can replace the Banyard millet with the Kodo millet.
  • A wet grinder works well in grinding millet.