How to make Kodo millet idli for healthy breakfast
Ingredients
- 2½ cups Kodo millet
- 1½ cups Idly rice
- 1½ cups Blacl lentils/Urad dal Skin removed
- Water as required
- Salt as required
Instructions
- Soak Kodo millet for 8 hours to get a smooth batter.
- Soak Idli rice and black lentils separately for 2 hours.
- Grind Black lentils separately with enough water till it becomes fluffy.
- Grind Idli rice and Kodo millet together into a soft consistency.
- Mix both batters and add salt.
- Mix vigorously until everything blends together.
- Keep it for fermentation for 5 to 6 hours.
- Now the batter is ready to use.
- 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.