IDLY

Ingredients:
Sela (parboiled rice) 2 ½ cups
Dhuli urad daal( split black gram) 1 cup
Salt 2 tsp
Oil 1 tsp
Method:
Wash and soak daal and rice separately. Keep them soaked for 4-5 hours.
Grind them separately.grind daal to a very fine paste, addind a littlewater, till the daal turns absolutely smmoth and fluffy and a few bubbles can be seen
Grind rice a bit coursly by adding a little water . it should be like suji.
Mix them together with salt . mix thoroughly and keep covered overnight to ferment.
Take an idly mould and grease it with oil.
Pour 1tbsp of batter in each cup of mould and steam it. Can steam in abig deep pan filled with 1” water. Cover the pan with a lid.steam for 15 mins.
If you are steaming in a microwave steam it for 4-5 mins.
Let it cool a bit and then remove idlies with the help of a knife.
Serve hot.