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Thinai Idly Recipe

Thinai Idly Recipe with step by step pictures. This easy and healthy millets recipe is a great replacement for our rice idli. It has more nutrients and these recipes are getting very popular these days.
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Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
fermenting time: 8 hours
Total Time: 8 hours 20 minutes
Servings: 10 servings
Calories: 61kcal

Ingredients

  • 2 cups Thinai / Foxtail Millet
  • 1 cup Normal Cooking Rice - I used Red Samba Rice
  • 1 cup Urad dal / Ulundu Paruppu
  • 1 tsp Fenugreek Seeds / Vendayam
  • Salt to taste

Instructions

  • Wash all the ingredients well in lots and lots of water.
  • Now soak urad dal and fenugreek together, Soak rice and thinai separately. Soak all of them for 4 hours.
  • When they are soaked, drain them.
  • Now take a blender and add urad dal and fenugreek. Grind them till they are fluffy and foamy. Transfer them to a large bowl.
  • Now in the same blender add in rice and thinai and grind them till they are smooth. Add water slowly while grinding them.
  • Pour them to the same bowl where you have urad dal mix. Add salt and mix well.
  • Now cover them and leave to ferment for 6 - 8 hours.
  • Once they are fermented, give one final mix.
  • Grease idli plates with oil. pour small ladleful of batter in it and steam for 7 to 10 mins.
  • Once steamed, remove each idly with a spoon and serve it with coconut chutney ad spicy tomato chutney

Nutrition

Serving: 1g | Calories: 61kcal | Carbohydrates: 10g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 0.2g | Sodium: 1mg | Fiber: 4g | Vitamin A: 1IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 12mg | Iron: 2mg
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