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Jul12

Ragi Dosa / Finger Millet Dosa

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Ragi Dosa is one of the most common dish I cook very often for breakfast, as ragi/finger millet comes with loads of health benefits. Using this batter you can make plain dosa, onion dosa, onion and green chillies dosa and even uttapam. Let me share the recipe…

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Ragi/FingerMillet Dosa
Ragi/FingerMillet Dosa

Ingredients:

Making of Ragi Dosai / Finger Millet Dosa –

Preparation:

  • Mix the batter well, check for salt in the batter, if needed you can sprinkle little.
  • Heat tawa, rub with little oil.
  • Spoon the batter with ladle in the center of the tawa, spread it all over the tawa (circle shape).
  • Drizzle little oil or ghee along the sides and center of Dosa.
  • Wait for 3 mins or until till the dosa starts turning golden brown. Swap the sides and cook for another min.
  • Remove from fire.
After fermentation – Ragi / finger Millet Batter
Dosa getting cooked
Dosa getting cooked
Ragi/FingerMillet Dosa
Dosa with onions and curry leaves
Onion Ragi Dosa
Ragi/FingerMillet Dosa

Serve Dosa with Sambar and Chutney.

Note: For Onion Ragi Dosa – chop the onions to fine pieces and sprinkle onion over the batter once got spreaded and wait until it gets cooked.

Sep24

Ragi (Finger Millet) Idly / Dosa Batter

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Nowadays ragi/finger millet is commonly used among all of us, as they help in managing Diabetics and helps in weight loss. Since my hubby is diabetic, I always look for Ragi recipes, I used to prepare ragi porridge daily for him. But even I was bored in preparing ragi porridge daily and then I tried out this batter, idly was very soft and Dosa was Crispy. So I prepare this once in every week.

Health Benefits: It helps in weight loss, because of the bulkiness of fibers and the slower digestion rate. It is the richest source of calcium among plant foods and so it helps in strengthening and developing the bones. It also helps in diabetics and helps in lowering high cholesterol level and so on. Being low in fat and gluten free, ragi is easy to digest. It is also even to babies in the form of porridge.

It would highly recommend this recipe for Diabetic people, because both Ragi/Finger millet and Ulundam paruppu/Blackgram are good source in helping Diabetic.

Let us move on to the recipe…

After fermentation - Ragi / finger Millet Batter

After fermentation – Ragi / finger Millet Batter

Ingredients:

  • Ragi / Finger Millet Flour – 3 cups
  • Whole Blackgram / Urad dal / Ulundam Paruppu – ¾ cup
  • Salt to taste

Making of Keppai / Ragi / Finger Millet Idly/ Dosa Batter –

 

Preparation:

  • Soak urad dal/black gram in water for about 3 hrs.
  • Drain the water and grind the black gram along with little water (add water little by little while grinding).
  • In a wide mouth bowl, take ragi flour, pour water little by little and mix it with your hands, be sure no lumps are formed.
  • Pour in the ground urad dal batter to the ragi flour and mix it well with your hands.
  • Add in little salt (a tsp) for taste, cover with the lid and let it ferment for 6 hrs.
Ragi / finger Millet Flour with salt
Grounded whole blackgram / ulundam paruppu / urad dal
Ragi (finger millet) flour getting with urad dal (blackgram)
All together ready for fermentation
After fermentation – Ragi / finger Millet Batter

After fermentation, you can make idly or dosa or kuzhipaniyaram as you wish. Refrigerate it immediately after fermentation, else it would the batter would turn sour. Stays fresh in refrigerator for almost 4 days.

For Ragi Idly recipe, check out this link: https://madraasi.com/2015/09/24/ragi-finger-millet-idly/

 

Sep24

No rice Ragi Idly Recipe / Keppai Idli Recipe / Finger Millet Idli Recipe – Diabetic recipes

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Frequently Ragi/Finger Millet plays an important role in kitchen and as the result here comes my ragi idly. Just like that I tried out this Ragi batter and never expected it would be a big hit in my kitchen. The idly was very soft and fluffy. A healthy, easy and simple recipe for everyone right from kids till elders. Also I would highly recommend this as Diabetic-Friendly and friendly for people looking out for weight loss. Let us move on to the recipe…

Taking this to Fiesta Friday #87 hosted by Angie@thenovicegarderner.

Ragi (Finger Millet) Idly
Ragi (Finger Millet) Idly

Ingredients:

Preparation:

  • If you find that batter is too thick, do sprinkle little water and mix it well with the batter.
  • Gently drop idly batter with a ladle in the idly mould.
  • Steam idly for 10 – 15 mins (ragi idly consumes time compared to the regular idly).
  • Pierce a tooth pick to the idly, the idly is steamed, if the tooth pick comes out clean, else continue steaming for few more minutes.

Serve hot with Sambar and Chutney.

Mini Ragi Idly
Ragi (Finger Millet) Sambar Idly

For Mini Ragi Idly or Ragi Sambar Idly: Steam the idly in the mini idly mould and soak it with sambar before serving for sambar idly. For Ragi Mini Idly, steam the idly in the idly mould and serve hot with sambar and chutney.

Check out my other Ragi / Finger Millet recipes: Ragi (Finger Millet) Batter for Idly and Dosa, Ragi Pidi Kozhukattai / Finger Millet Dumpling (Sweet), Ragi Puttu / Steamed Finger Millet, Ragi Upma / Finger Millet Upma, Ragi Koozh / Finger Millet Porridge, Ragi semiya upma / Finger Millet Vermicelli Upma.