Idli sambhar

Take boiled rice in a bowl and rinse in water twice or thrice and then soak it in water. Take urad dal and fenugreek seeds in another vessel and rinse it in water twice and add water to soak them.l
Add generous water to the dals and rice as the soaking process makes them double their size.

After 4 hours, drain the water from uraddal and add it to the grinder. Initially add 1/2 cup of water to the grinder and start the grinding process.  Then slowly sprinkle water in regular intervals and grind the urad dal to a nice and thick batter. This process usually takes at least 20 minutes. If the urdal quality is good, then we would get more batter. After 20 minutes, our urad dal batter is nice and smooth and if we take some batter and roll it in our hand it should roll like a soft ball.

Next, drain the water from the rice and add it to the grinder. Add water little by little and grind the rice to a nice, smooth and thick batter. Add the rice batter to the mixing bowl which has already the urad dal batter.

Mix both the batters well with a ladle or clean hand. Add 4 tablespoon salt and give a nice mix then close the bowl with a air tight lid or a proper lid to cover the bowl completely and keep it aside for 12 hours or overnight for fermentation.

After 12 hours, we could see batter has fermented and the quantity would have doubled up. Our Idli / Dosa Batter is now ready for making Idlis / Dosas

Take idli stand grease them with oil pour the batter and steam for 10 minutes. Hot idli are ready serve them with Sambar.