easy mallige idli recipe | kushboo idli | how to make soft rice idli
Recipe Snapshot
- Prep time: 15 minutes
- Cook time: 12 minutes
- Total time: 27 minutes
- Yield: 35 idli
- Category: Breakfast
- Cuisine: karnataka
Ingredients
- 1 cup urad dal
- 1 cup poha / aval / avalakki / flattened rice (thick)
- 2 cup idli rice or sona masuri rice
- water for soaking
- 1 tsp salt
- oil for greasing
Method
- firstly, in a large bowl take 1 cup urad dal and 1 cup poha.
- soak for 4 hours adding enough water.
- in another bowl soak 2 cup idli rice and soak for 5 hours.
- drain off the water and transfer urad dal - poha into the blender.
- blend to smooth and fluffy batter adding water as required.
- transfer the urad dal batter to a large mixing bowl.
- in the blender take soaked idli rice, make sure to drain off the water completely.
- blend to slightly coarse paste as of rava texture.
- transfer the rice batter to the same mixing bowl.
- mix well, making sure the batter is combined well.
- now cover and rest in warm place for 8-10 hours or till the batter ferments and doubles.
- after 8 hours, batter doubles indicating well fermented with air pockets present.
- add 1 tsp salt to the batter and mix gently without disturbing the air pockets.
- now grease the idli plate with oil.
- scoop the batter into idli plate greased with oil.
- place in steamer and steam for 12 minutes on medium flame or till a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- finally, soft mallige idli / kushboo idli is ready to be served along with chutney and sambar.
Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note
Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.