Taushe Idli/Dosa ( Cucumber Rice Cakes & Crepes); Meatless Monday
Recently I visited my cousin who lives upstate. She had a huge bounty of vegetables inward her garden inward this summer. She gave me a bunch of tomatoes together with around cucumbers to pick out habitation amongst me. I was thrilled to have fresh vegetables that were only plucked off the plants! The cucumbers were huge together with delicious. Looking at them made me nostalgic together with crave for taushe idli. Taushe idli / Tausali is around other real traditional Mangalorean Konkani breakfast detail that real few people are familiar amongst elsewhere! It is basically cucumber- rice- kokosnoot steamed cakes that is commonly sweetened amongst jaggery( unprocessed sugar). The same batter tin last slightly diluted together with made into crepes. Both gustation proficient to me. I am partial to the idlis to a greater extent than than the crepes ( this is i rare representative where I don't profess my love for dosas!). There is also a savory version that tin last made inward which jaggery is non used together with the crepe is served amongst a spicy chutney/dip.
These idlis hold off similar the regular idlis inward variety together with size but are golden yellowish inward color. Some people also steam the batter inward a plate together with spell it into squares/rectangles similar a dhokla.
The steaming method for this is the same every bit for regular idlis. This is i idli for which the batter is non fermented at all. In fact, y'all are probable to ruin the idli if y'all larn out the batter uncooked i time it is made, every bit the cucumber releases H2O together with thins the batter. Hence it is real of import to steam the idlis every bit presently every bit the batter is made.
Do test it if y'all larn a chance. It volition last something unlike together with nice.
Servings: Makes xvi idlis
Prep time: twenty mins + atleast 1 hr soaking fourth dimension for rice.Cook time: 10-15 minsTotal time: 35 mins summation rice soaking time.
Ingredients:
White rice/dosa rice: two cups
Cucumber: 1 large sized, peeled and grated.
Freshly grated coconut: 1 cup
Jaggery: 1.5 cups, grated
Salt: a pinch
Water: six cups for soaking the rice.
Oil: to grease the idli mold/skillet.
Method:
Soak the white rice inward six cups of H2O for atleast 1-2 hours.
Using your hands, crush out every bit much H2O every bit possible from the grated cucumber. Reserve the water. Keep the squeezed cucumber inward a unlike bowl.
Grease the idli moulds together with piece of job on ready.
Add H2O to the idli steamer every bit per the pedagogy on the steamer or to the required H2O level. Heat the steamer on medium heat.
Drain the rice. Put it inward the mixer/blender together with grind it coarsely. Use the reserved liquid from the cucumber to grind. Use every bit lilliputian H2O every bit possible for grinding. (Later when the jaggery is added, it thins the batter!)
Once the rice is coarsely ground, add together freshly grated coconut, grated jaggery together with tabular array salt together with pulse it until it is all nicely mixed.
Take the prepared batter inward a bowl.
To develop idlis:
Add 1 ladleful of to each of the impressions inward the mold. Place the rack inward the steamer. Steam on high open fire for 10-12 mins.Test if done yesteryear inserting a toothpick. If the toothpick comes out clean, it is done.
Let it cool downward for 5-10 mins earlier attempting to take away the idli out of the mold. Use a butter knife to take away it. If the plate has been greased well, the idli should come upward correct out!
Serve hot amongst butter or ghee ( clarified butter ) on top.
Serve hot amongst butter or ghee ( clarified butter ) on top.
Enjoy!
To brand crepes:
Heat the griddle/tawa. Grease the griddle/skillet amongst kokosnoot oil.
Add a ladleful of batter to the oculus of the griddle. Spread it yesteryear moving the ladle inward circles over the batter together with spreading it. Reduce the open fire to medium together with allow it ready for 2-3 mins until the crepe is cooked. Flip it together with ready the other side for a minute.
Serve hot amongst butter or ghee ( clarified butter).
Enjoy!
I am sharing this postal service amongst all my honey friends at Throwback Th #56, Fiesta Fri #139 and Saucy Saturday#64! Angie's co-hosts this calendar week are Antonia @ Zoale and Sandhya @ Indfused.
Cooking made easy:
If y'all don't pick out jaggery, y'all tin purpose brownish saccharide or coconut-palm sugar.
The no-grind method:
If y'all are inward a rush together with don't pick out the fourth dimension to soak the rice together with grind it, y'all tin purpose rice rawa/idli rawa to brand the batter. Just mix all the ingredients inward a bowl . The steaming procedure is the same.
Tip for salubrious living:
Jaggery is a peachy substitute for crystallized sugar. It is inexpensive, less processed, rich inward Fe together with hence much healthier. Read to a greater extent than inward references below.
Food for thought:
A hero is mortal who has given his/her life to something bigger than oneself. Joseph Campbell
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