Rava Idlis can be extremely delicious – can actually be super quick unlike popular perception.
Preparation time – 10 minutes, Cooking time-6minutes, Serves 4
Ingredients
Rava 2 cups
Curds 1 and1/2 cups
Oil 2 tablespoons
Ghee 2 teaspoons
To be finely chopped
Green chillies 2 nos
Coriander 6 twigs
Curry leaves 2 twigs
For seasoning – 1 teaspoon each of urad dal, channa dal, and mustard seeds
Baking soda 1/2teaspoon
Salt 3/4teaspoon
Method
Spread rava on a microwave safe plate and microwave in high mode for 90 seconds. You can alternatively also dry roast the rava for a little over a minute in a kadai.
Heat oil in a kadai add mustard seeds first, and then add the dals. When the dals turn golden add finely chopped chillies, corriander and curry leaves. Cook on a medium fire for 2 minutes. Add the rava mix well and turn off the gas.
Add ghee, baking soda,salt and curds to the rava mixture and mix well. Add 2 tablespoons water to the batter.Pour the batter in greased idly trays and steam in a pressure cooker for 6 minutes (without weight). Take out the idlies after 5 minutes.
Serve hot with Mulagai Podi (South Indian Gun Powder) or any chutney of your choice.
Tip: You can refrigerate the rava mixture in a food grade air tight container for about four to five days. Take desired quantities of the mixture and add ghee/ curds whenever you need to make yummy rava idlis. Can also be steamed in a microwave idli container.
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i tried this recipe. after adding curds, the batter was not of pouring consistency. and after steaming, the idlis came out very hard. can u please tell me where i made a mistake.
Hi chaya,
Your idlis will come out well the next time you try.
Please check the following.
1. Baking soda is different from baking powder.
2. Add a little more water if the curd is very thick.
3. Using only butter milk can also make the idli hard.
The batter should be slightly thinner than idli batter.
Goodluck. Please let me know the results of your next trial.
bye. latha.
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Hi lakshmi,
now iam able to make rava idlis very well. they r so soft and delicious. i prepare them often now.
thanks for sharing this recipe. now, iam a regular visitor to ur site. thanks once again. keep up the good work.
I tried this out and it came out really well. I did make some changes, though….I didn’t have enough rava…so i had to play around with the ingredients a little bit. Will be blogging about it soon. Thank you for sharing….
Hi..the rave idli looks delicious. Which rava have u used particulary to make them? Is it fine, coarse, which one? Tell me the exact name pl.
Hi,
I just happened to visit ur site. I would like to know which rava to use for rava idli (idli rava or bombay rava). Please let me know.
thanks.
Dearest Lathamma,
I made the most delicious and perfect rava idlis for breakfast this morning (with coconut chutney), all thanks to you! The most important tip of yours that I’ll always remember is the batter should be thinner than idli batter…. i always made thick batter that was like cookie batter (to spread using spoons) and the idli was stone-hard:) thank you, thank you, thank you….
Latha ma,
I tried your rava idlli this morning and we enjoyed it a lot. It came out very good. The only thing I differed from your recipe was the quantity of water used. I had to use more than 2 tbsp to get it in a pouring consistency. Also, used only 1 twig of curry leaves. Next time I’ll do 2 to get it exactly like yours. Thank you so much for sharing this.
Hi,
I just happened to visit ur site. I would like to know which rava to use for rava idli (idli rava or bombay rava). Please let me know.
thanks.
Swetha soumya and malini, Bombay rava is used to make the rava idlies. The curry leaves and coriander leaves used in more quantitry gives a softness to the idlies, Curd must be thick and the batter should be slightly thinner than idli batter. latha.
Latha,
Thanks for sharing the recipe.
I followed it but I used microwave instead of steaming. It was good. I need to use more judgement w.r.t. microwave to get better softness.
Thanks
Dharini
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Hi latha ,
I am Meesha from bombay .
I love southindian food … memories of saravana bhavan ….. filter coffee … Of course i do make it all at home , but love the feeling & atmosphere in chennai .
Just love your blog … amazing recipies .. am going to try every one of it … learnt many of them in a cooking class , 10 yrs back from an iyer family in mylapore …. Please keep the recipies coming akka ! My 2 toddler sons , husband & mom-in-law too loved the rava idlis … ! Great work …
Hello Lathamma, Where are you? I hope you get your computer back soon:) I made your fool-proof rava idli again today and remembered you… and so had a question to ask hee hee… 1/2 tsp baking soda for 2 cups rawa. if i double the quantity of rawa should i also increase the soda to 1 tsp?
Thank you Mami, Tried out the rava idli tonight and they came out really nice. Almost like your pic.
Your rava idlys are very beautiful. Really mouthwaterig.
I tried these idlis..They were very good! Thanks!
Hello Latha,
I tried ur Idli. It came out very well. One more favour.. It looks very appetizing on your picture, with a mild tinge of yellow. Mine came a little white. I like yours better. Should I be adding any tumeric?
Hello Lathama,
I tried this idli for the first time today. I must admit that it was super fast, and very very tasty too. However, my idli wasn’t very soft, neither was it very hard. How can I make my idli softer? I definitely want to try it again the next time around.
hi
How do i make these idlis without baking soda? is there a substitute?
vidhya
Hi
I have noticed, that you have stoped since 2008 Dec. Why don’t you continue. I hope so many viewers are looking forward it. Please keep on send more recipes, specially chutneys, podies ect.
Thank you
Hema
Awesome Idlis – It turned out so well – I ran out of MTR mix and I had to make it – so I searched the net and got interested in this recipe – I am not buying those MTR mix ever again – It is delicious and so tasty – I added some cashews to the mix along with the chana and urad dal when I did the tadka. – Thanks!!!
Hi, could you please let me know if Idli Rava(made with parboiled rice) can be used for making rava idli’s?
Hi Latha,
The rawa idlies came out splendid.. Thanks a lot for your detailed and careful description of the steps involved.. The batter consistency “thinner than idly batter” did the trick.. I never used to get such soft idlies before.. I read this in one of your replies to the query.. I think it would do good to many if you can add this in the procedure..
My husband’s praise made my day! Thanks a ton! Btw, he says he would’nt allow me to change anything in the recipe to get idlies for better..;)
Preethi
My pleasure! 🙂 I am happy my blog is useful for many people! Thanks Preethi! 🙂
Lol, My computer died while I was looking at your blog last time I was here. And for the previous 4 weeks I have been searching for this specific weblog, so glad I found it for a second time! 🙂
I have to tell you this – your recipe has produced the best rava idlis ever for me. And I have been making this countless times since I first discovered your blog, probably from 2009 on. I just hope you continue to post many more such recipes and am wondering why you have been silent since the beginning of this year.
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I will recommend this website!