Semolina Cake Mix (Rava Idli)
200g by Gits.
Ready to cook savoury semolina cake dry mix.
An alternative to the steamed rice-lentil idli, Rava Idli is made from semolina tempered with spices, blended with yoghurt and steamed.
Idli's are a traditional breakfast of South Indian origin,
If you don't have a traditional idli cooker don't worry, good results can be made with using a muffin tray (fairy cake tray) and steaming in a wok. Use a steamer large enough for your cake tray or place the cake tin in a colander and steam like you would vegetables in a wok. Alternatively try baking them.
Ingredients: semolina (wheat) and lentil flour, hydrogenated vegetable oil (palmolein oil, sesame oil), bengal gram, salt, raising agents (citric acid, sodium bicarbonate), dehydrated green chillies, dehydrated curry leaves, preservative: butylated hydroxy anisole.
Preparation:
- 1) Put to boil approx. 1ltr water in a large steaming vessel or pressure cooker. Mix contents of this pack with 300ml water. Stir to smooth batter and set aside for 10mins.
- 2) Lightly grease mould with oil. Stir batter gently and pour thin layer into each mould.
- 3) Place Idli mould tray inside vessel. Cover and steam on high heat for 15mins.
- 4) Serve steaming hot, fluffy side up.
Alternatively try baking.
