Daily consumption of millets is considered to be highly beneficial for health. Barnyard millet also called as udalu in telugu and samwat ke chawal in hindi. This millet is anti-acidic, gluten free and detoxifying.
Barnyard millet has six times more fibre than wheat and good for weight loss. It is an ideal replacement for rice in dosa and idly batters.
This variation of idly is simple to make and tastes good. The texture of idly is almost similar to the rice idly. Soaking, grinding and fermenting the grains is similar to rice idly process. This recipe should definitely be tried.
Recipe for Barnyard millet idly
Ingredients for Barnyard millet idly
- 2 ½ cups barnyard millet or udalu
- ½ cup poha
- 1 cup urad dal or skinned black gram
- Salt to taste
How to make
Wash and soak the millet, poha and urad dal for 4 hours.
Grind to a fine paste by adding little water. The batter shouldn’t be too runny.
Add salt and mix well.
Keep overnight or 8 hours for fermenting.
Once the batter has fermented, give it a nice mix.
Oil the idly moulds. Fill up the moulds with the batter.
Put 2 glasses of water in the idly cooker. Place the moulds in the cooker and steam for 10 mins.
Serve with coconut chutney and sambar.
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