- Wheat flour - 2 cups
- Jaggery, grated -1/2cup
- Warm Water - 1 cup
- Green Gram - 1 cup
- Cardamom powder - 1tsp
- Grated coconut - 1/2 cup
- Salt - 1/4 tsp
- Oil/Butter/Ghee - 1Tbsp
METHOD:
- Dry roast the wheat flour in a pan for few minutes,keep aside.
- Pressure cook green gram by adding enough water.
- When it is cooked well, drain excess water, add salt and keep aside.
- Mix the salt to the wheat flour.
- Add Cardamom powder and mix well.
- Now add the cooked green gram to the flour and mix well.
- Add warm water little by little and Knead the dough.The consistency should not be too sticky or too hard.Dredge in the flour if its sticky.(Make like chapatti dough)
- Make small balls and roll each ball.
- Take a ball of dough and make a smooth ball.
- Dust the work station with flour and put the dough and press it down with your palm.
- Make a small round disc shape, you can either toss it between both palms or roll it.
- Now place little grated jaggery and grated coconut in the center of the dough and
- Pull the edges close and re-roll into a neat ball.
- Grease Iddli mould with Oil/Butter/Ghee.Place the Wheat flour-Green gram ball to the Iddli mould.
- Pressure cook them for 10 minutes in Idly Cooker.
