Idli Sandals

Ingredients
- Black gram - 1 Cup
- Idli Rava - 2 Cups
- Grated carrot - 1/4 Cup
- Grated Beetroot - 1/4 Cup
- Chopped Greens Any- 1/4 Cup
- Cumin Seeds- 1 tablespoon
- Salt
- Clarified butter/ Ghee- To grease
Instructions
- Soak the black gram for 5 hours. Then grind it into a smooth paste.
- Add the idli rava and salt to the grinded paste and mix it properly to form the idli batter. Let this ferment for 8 hours/overnight.
- Now add in the grated beetroot, grated carrot, greens and cumin seeds to it. Stir it gently so that the batter is not disturbed.
- Take a flat bottomed shallow vessel (Steel/ Aluminium) and grease it with ghee till the rim of the vessel. Fill half of this vessel with the prepared batter.
- Place the batter filled vessel in an Idli container/cooker and steam for 10 minutes on a medium flame. Then for the next 5 minutes on a low flame.
- Turn off the stove and let it cool for 5 minutes.
- Transfer this carefully onto a greased plate and cut it into sandal shapes.
- To garnish, cut two semi-circle pieces of parboiled carrot such that one small semi-circular shaped carrot piece is placed as a toe and the other slice as the ankle.
- Join the two pieces with the help of any parboiled green stalk.
- Serve it hot with peanut/ coconut chutney.
Really cute:)
This is sooooo cute.