Nutritious Colored Rava Idlis

This recipe is adapted from Nita Mehta’s cooking classes which a friend of mine attended.She gave me this recipe and I made it.It was so delicious and so nutritive at the same time that I could not refrain from sharing it!The Idlis look so pretty and the taste so wonderful that it would be a shame not to try this even once.So here goes the recipe…to nutrition,taste and health..CHEERS!

Preparation time – 25 minutes

Makes – 12 -14 Idlis

Ingredients

1 full cup roasted semolina(sooji)

1 1/4 cup yogurt

Water as required

Salt to taste

2 tsp Eno Fruit Salt

1/4 cup spinach puree

1/4 cup fresh/packed tomato puree

Oil as required

Method.

Wash and roughly chop the spinach and put into a blender jar.

Add very little water and make a paste.

The Spinach Paste

Now take the semolina in a bowl.

Add the yogurt and whisk well.Now grate the ginger on top of the mixture and add salt to taste.Mix again very well.

Divide mixture into 2 portions in 2 bowls.

1st portion.

Add the spinach paste to this. Mix well to get a light green batter.

2nd portion:
Add the tomato puree to the other bowl.Mix well for everything to blend nicely.

Fill a steamer with 2 cups of water and place on medium heat.Oil a set of Idli moulds. Preferably use Sesame Oil.

Add 1 tsp Eno to the tomato puree bowl.Mix well.It will froth and turn aerated.Do the same with the spinach puree bowl as well.Now drop a ladleful of batter in the Idli plates.I prefer to drop alternating the spinach and tomato puree batters!Keep the stand in the steamer and close lid.