Rice batter

 This basic batter  with a slight modification in ingredients is used for Idlis,Dosas,Paniyarams,Uthappams……

Ingredients:

Boiled rice – one cup

Urad dal – a quarter of a cup

Methi seeds – one heap tsp

Method:

Wash the rice well and soak it in water for about two hours.  Wash the urad dal along with the methi seeds and soak it it in water for about an hour.

Grind the urad dal with enough water until it almost doubles in quantity and is smooth.Grind the rice until it is slightly coarser (like that of fine sooji )than the urad dal batter.

Mix both,the rice batter aswell as the urad dal batter together with some salt.Leave it overnight and use it the next morning.

This batter is used to make the Idlis.

For the dosas, you have to add just a fistful of raw rice to the boiled rice when soaking it and the rice should be ground to a smooth consistency.

For Paniyarams , you add a tbspn of chutney dal powder (pottu cudalai) with a tsp of sugar to the basic idli batter.