Procedure :🔗

• Clean the rice and dry it in shadow. Then grind it coarsely.

• Then add jaggery,cardamom powder,grated coconut and ghee to the coarsely ground rice and make it as a batter using hot water as needed.

• Take the vessel which is used to steam idli and fill it with half the amount of water. When the water starts to boil close it with the lid. Then place a banana leaf coated with ghee on the idli plate and pour 2 laddle full of batter. Again close it with banana leaf coated with ghee. Repeat the process for one more idli plate and close it with lid.

• After 15 minutes (when water comes out from the lid like drops) open it. Sprinkle water on the leaf and take the idli out. Repeat the process for the rest of the batter.

1. Sugar Idli

Ingredients:

Rice flour - 750 gms (½ padi) Water - 1875(1 ¼ padi) Grated coconut - 350 gms (10 palam) Cardamom powder - 8.75 gms (¼ palam) Sugar - 525 gms (15 palam)

Procedure :

• Soak the idli rice for 48 minutes and drain the water. After that drain the rice without water and grind it in the mortar and using a winnow (to free grain from the lighter particles of chaff, dirt, etc., especially by throwing it into the air and allowing the wind or a forced current of air to blow away impurities) separate the part which has become flour and take the part which has rice.

• Take the water and boil it. In the boiling water add grated coconut,cardamom powder and sugar .

• Lastly add the water to the prepared rice and mix it.

• Take the vessel which is used to steam idli and fill it with half the amount of water. When the water starts to boil close it with the lid. Then place a banana leaf coated with oil on the idli plate and pour 2 laddle full of batter. Again close it with banana leaf coated with oil. Repeat the process for one more idli plate and close it with lid.

• After 15 minutes (when water comes out from the lid like drops) open it. Sprinkle water on the leaf and take the idli out. Repeat the process for the rest of the batter.