Idly & Dosai with Chickpeas

Category: Breakfast / Tiffin  
Soaking Time: 6 Hrs   
Fermentation Time: 8 - 10 Hrs  
Cooking Time: 10 mins /batch

Crispy Dosa!

One day while browsing, I came across a writing about increasing the nutritive value of Our Idly by adding chickpeas (Channa / Kondakadalai / Sundal). I tried out today and to my surprise it came out good:) There is not much difference in taste than our normal Idly and only the color is slightly yellow shade compared to our snow white idlies: However if its very healthy and tasty who cares of the color;) 

Idlies with Chickpeas

 Ingredients:

• Idly rice - 3 cups
• Chickpeas - 1 cup (I used the white kabuli channa)
• Whole white urad dhal - 3/4 cup
• Fenugreek seeds - 2 tsp
• Salt - To taste

Method:

1. Soak rice, chickpeas, fenugreek seeds separately for 5-6 hrs and urad dhal for 1-2 hrs
2.  In a wet grinder, first add the fenugreek seeds and then urad dal, grind till it becomes soft and fluffy. Once urad dhal is done, remove it in a big container and keep aside. While grinding for Idly, make sure you just sprinkle required water at regular intervals rather than pouring it at once. This will make the batter very fluffy and airy which results in soft idlies
3.  Add rice to the grinder and grind it till it becomes smooth, but with a slight coarse texture. Once done, remove it into the container with urad dhal
4.  Now add the chickpeas and grind till it becomes smooth and fluffy (We can coarsely grind it in mixie and then add to grinder  for easy grinding)
5.  Add the chickpeas batter to the rice & urad batter, add required salt and mix well with hands
6.  Allow to ferment overnight / for about 8-10 hrs and it depends on your room temperature; After fermentation, the volume of the batter would be almost doubled. (Make sure to place the batter in a big bowl to avoid spills after it gets fermented)
   
   
   
7.  Once fermented, make idlies as usual
   
8. serve with your favourite side dish

Idlies with Carrot Sambhar!

       I tried dosai with this same batter and we get golden brown crispy dosas:)