Ragi Idli dosa
Easy to make healthy and soft Ragi Idli recipe without the addition of rice | millets

- Prep time
- 10 min
- Cook time
- 20 min
- Yield
- 4 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
- 1.5 cup whole ragi
- 1/2 cup urad dal
- 1/4 tsp venthayam | methi seeds
- Water to soak and grind
- Salt as needed
- Oil to make Idli and dosa
Instructions
- 1
In a wide bowl, add ragi, urad dal and vendhyam.
- 2
Wash and soak this in water for 4 hours.
- 3
Later grind this into a smooth batter in grinder or mixie.
- 4
I prefer to grind this in wet grinder only.
- 5
Once done, add salt and mix well using your hands.
- 6
Transfer to a vessel and cover it and keep it aside for 5-6 hours.
- 7
If you are living in a cold country, you can leave it for fermentation, over night too.
- 8
I usually wrap the vessel with blanket and keep it inside the kitchen shelf, during winters.
- 9
Once it is fermented, you can make idlis.
- 10
Both Idli and dosa comes out very well with this batter.
- 11
You can make soft idlis and crispy dosas.
- 12
Do not mix the batter, take the top portion of the batter and pour this on greased idli plates.
- 13
Steam for 8-10 minutes in medium flame.
- 14
Leave it for 2 minutes and then take it out using a spoon.
- 15
Without mixing the batter, you can make idlis for 3 days.
- 16
For making dosas, mix the batter well and add little water to it.
- 17
Heat a tawa and pour a ladle of batter into it.
- 18
Spread into thin dosa.
- 19
Drizzle oil around this.
- 20
Once cooked on one side, flip it on to the next side.
- 21
Take out from the tawa.
- 22
Ragi dosa is ready.
- 23
You can store this batter for 4-5 days.