Ingredients

• Rice – 250g
• White Urad dal – 125g
• Fennel seeds – 50g
• Okra/lady finger – 20
• Green chillies – 6
• Cumin seeds – 1 tbsp
• Chana dal – 1 tsp
• Salt – Required

How to Prepare

Total Preparation Time: 20-30 minutes

1. Wash Urad dal, rice, fennel seeds cleanly and soak them with enough water for 5-6 hours
2. Drain water from rice, urad dal, fennel seeds and keep aside
3. Using mixer or grinder, grind urad dal, fennel seeds for about 2 minutes
4. Then add 20 ml water and grind them, again add 20ml water and grind them again
5. Repeat the process till it become fluffy batter consistency
6. Transfer the urad dal paste into a bowl and keep aside
7. Then add the soaked rice into the grinder and grind it for 2 minutes
8. Once rice is dry grinned, add 50ml water and grind them again
9. After 2 minutes, add 50ml water and grind them again
10. Repeat the process till the batter become fluffy
11. After that add urad dal batter into the grinder and grind with rice batter again and keep aside
12. Wash okra, green chillies, chana dal and chop okra, chillies
13. Add okra, green chillies, cumin seeds, chana dal into the grinder and grind it for 2 minutes
14. Once okra mixture is dry grinned, add 20ml water and grind them again
15. After that add 20ml water and grind them again
16. Repeat the process till it become fluffy batter
17. After that add rice, urad dal batter into the grinder and grind with okra batter again
18. Grind the batter till it starts bubbling
19. Save the batter into a vessel and leave this batter for 9-10 hours for fermentation process
20. Once fermentation process is over, the level of batter quantity will increase and this is proper stage for making idlis
21. Mix the batter well after the fermentation process
22. Take enough amount of batter into another bowl, add a pinch of water and salt
23. Mix it well till the batter the become smooth
24. Take idli steamer vessel add enough water and boils it for 5-10 minutes
25. Take the steamer’s idli plate which has idli molds and place a cloth all over the plate to avoid the absorbs water
26. Then pour one big ladle of batter in each idli molds and close the lid
27. Allow them to cook for 8-10 minutes in high steam temperature
28. After that open the lid, just inserting a knife or fork at the center of the idli
29. If the knife is clean means idli is cooked, if the batter comes with knife close the lid and cook for another few minutes till it doesn’t comes from knife
30. Carefully take the idli plate outside and transfer the idli into a hot box
31. Now the healthy Okra idli is ready to server
32. (Note) Want to more idli, remove the batter in the cloth and sprinkle some water, cook it