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    Home » Indian Recipes » Indian Main Course

    Fried Mini Idli and Podi Fried Idli

    Oct 7, 2016 Modified: Mar 17, 2022 by Rekha Kakkar This post may contain affiliate links ·

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    Mini idli, button idli, coin Idli call them any of these name, the cute and small bite sized idlies sure make a delicious appetiser or a tea time snack along with a cup of kadak masala chai or a cup of filter kappi. In this post I am showing you three ways you can eat these mini rice Idli's.

    Mini idli, button idli, coin Idli call them any of these name, the cute and small bite sized idlies sure make a delicious appetiser or a tea time snack along with a cup of kadak masala chai or a cup of filter kappi. In this post I am showing you three ways you can eat these mini rice Idli's.

    The recipe of mini idli is not any different from the regular breakfast idli which is very healthy breakfast in Southern India. You use up same batter as regular idli and steam the idli in exact same way. Only thing which is different is Idli plates, you use idli plate with small size depressions for filling up the idli batter which is hardly a teaspoon of batter per idli.

    Podi Idli

    In the podi idli, mini idlies are made using this idli recipe and then tempered like recipe given below.

    Ingredients

    20 bite sized mini idli
    2 tbsps Idli Podi
    1 tbsp gingelly oil
    1 tsp mustard seeds
    10 - 12 curry leaves
    1 - 2 small sized red chilli
    1 tbsp fresh grated coconut

    Steps

    1. Heat up the gingelly oil in a non-stick pan.
    2. Add mustard seeds, curry leaves, and dry red chilli. Allow them to pop for 30 sec and switch off the heat.
    3. After switching off the heat add idli podi to the pan and also add bite sized mini idli.
    4. Serve them hot with a generous sprinkle of freshly grated coconut with a steaming cup of chai for delicious and spicy teatime snack.

    Mini Ghee Idli

    Ghee Idli This is almost same as podi Idli but here Idlies are actually sauteed for a bit in flavourful ghee which adds to a comforting and earthy taste of ghee along with soft bites of fluffy mini idli.

    GHEE IDLI RECIPE

    Ingredients

    20 bite sized mini idli
    1 tbsp ghee
    1 tsp mustard seed
    1 - 2 small red chilli
    curry leaves

    Steps

    1. Heat up the ghee in a non-stick pan, add mustard seeds curry leaves and red chilli.
    2. Cook them for 30 seconds on low heat and add the button idli in the pan.
    3. Saute them for 1 minute and serve them hot with coconut chutney and tea.

    If you are idli lover like me you may like to try this recipe of  Soft Rice Idli and Coconut chutney that is served with it.  Kanchipuram Idli or Fried Idli and Podi Idli , Chana Dal Idli  are another variations of Idli recipes. If you like to know about different varieties of Idli and history about origin of idli, you may want to read this article on Idli Varieties and History of Origin of Idli 

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