Millet Idli with Sambar

Healthy Breakfast Millet Idli with Sambar, Soft Fluffy Millet Idlis are great for breakfast

Millets are traditionally important grains,Millets are gaining popularity these days because of their health benefits like high fiber content, gluten free and rich nutritional content. So replace your Rice with Millets & make all the dishes healthy & low calorie, click here for some of my Millet dishes: Millet Dosa Recipe, Millet Kheer Recipe, Millet Neer Dosa recipe

South Indian special breakfast Idli with Sambar, make fluffy soft Idli's at home easily combine it with Hotel style Sambhar, These Idlis are made using Foxtail Millet, You can use any millet of your choice

Can be served Dipped in Sambhar:

Ingredients for Idli
For Idli Batter:
Urad Daal: 1 cup
Foxtail millet: 2+1/2 cups

Soak Urad Dal & millet in separate containers for  4 hrs 
Wash & Grind Urad dal with little water to fine paste

Remove in a big vessel
Then Wash & Grind soaked millet with little water to a coarse paste
Here is Urad dal paste & Millet Paste below

Then mix this with Urad dal Paste
Add little water & make it dosa paste consistency

Keep in warm place to Ferment Overnite (6hrs)

Procedure For Idli as follows:

After fermentation when making Idli add Salt to batter & mix

Grease the Idli mould with Oil

Pour a laddle full of Idli batter in each section of Idli

Keep in Idli steamer(Keeping water below)& steam for 20 min

After 20 min switch off the heat & let it cool down a bit

Then remove the Idli stand, let it release its steam a bit

Then with help of a wet spatula(ie dip the spatula in water)

Remove the Idli from each section & serve

Ingredients for Sambhar:

1 Potato: Cubed

Lentils( Toor daal): 2 cups

Tomatoes: 2 chopped

Tamarind: 2sps

Jaggery: 1sp

Aachi Sambar powder: 3 sps

For tempering:
Oil: 3sps

Mustard seeds: 1sp

Curry leaves: 5-6

Procedure for Lentil sambhar:
Wash the daal & soak it in water for 15-20 min
This way the daals will get cooked easily
Wash the Potato peel the Outer skin
Cut it to get cube size pieces
Pressure cook the lentils(Daal) along with the chopped potato

For the Tempering:

In a deep dish, Add Oil heat it then add mustard seeds
Once it splatters add curry leaves &  chopped Tomatoes
Fry the tomatoes till mushy, add salt to taste, this way tomatoes will soften fast
Add little water & cook the tomatoes, then add the cooked lentils with potato
Add 2 cups water (Depending on the consistency you need) add the sambar powder 3tbsp
Bring it to boil, the gravy will thicken, now add Tamarind paste & jaggery & mix
Add more water if the gravy is still very thick,check the taste,(if you want it move spicy you can add chili powder)
Sprinkle coriender leaves, Enjoy spicy tangy hotel style Sambhar

Serve with Idli by dipping the Idlis in sambhar


Enjoy super breakfast