Savory Stuffed Idli In Cooker Served with Kiwi Dates Dip

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Ingredients :

For Idli Batter

1. Jaggery – ½ cup
2. Tamarind – ¼ cup
3. Semolina/Sooji – ¾ cup
4. Salt – 1 tsp
5. Eno/Fruit Salt – 1 tsp

For Stuffing Idlis

1. Chopped Capsicum – ½ cup
2. Chopped Carrot – ½ cup
3. Chopped Cabbage – ½ cup
4. Veggies (your choice)
5. Curry Leaves – 4-5
6. Green Chillies – 1 (to taste)
7. Coriander Leaves
8. Salt – ½ tsp
9. Amchur Powder  – ½ tsp
10. Mustard Seeds – ½ tsp
11. Oil – 1 tsp

For Kiwi Dip

1. Kiwi – 1 medium sized
2. Dates – 2
3. Salt – ¼ tsp
4. Jaggery – 1 tbsp
5. Oil – ½ tsp
6. Mustard Seeds/ Rai – ¼ tsp

Method:

For Batter:

1. Soak jaggery in little water overnight in one bowl.
2. Soak tamarind in little water overnight in another bowl.
3. For tamarind, squeeze and extract thick juice. Add little water, squeeze well and strain. Discard the pulp.
4. Mix jaggery and tamarind water and add semolina in it. Add salt and keep batter aside for at least half an hour to settle.
5. After 30 minutes, add water or sooji as required and make a batter which is neither thin nor thick.

For Idly Stuffing:

1. Heat oil in a pan. Add mustard seeds and curry leaves and let them splutter.
2. Now add all the veggies, green chili, salt and amchur powder and saute on high flame till all the water evaporates.
3. Keep aside to cool.

For Kiwi Dates Dip

1. Peel and chop Kiwi.
2. Remove the dates seeds and chop the dates.
3. In a pan, heat oil and add mustard seeds.
4. Add chopped kiwi and dates in the pan and add very little water (1 tsp app) and cover the pan.
5. Keep it for 5 – 10 min on low flame.
6. Turn off the flame and add salt and jaggery.
7. Let it cool and then grind it for dip consistency.

For Making Idli

1. Pour 2 glasses water in cooker and heat over medium flame. Grease Idli Molds with oil. Add Eno in batter and stir. Do not overmix.
2. Firstly, I have kept carrot capsicum flower on greased molds.
3. Pour little batter, put some stuffing over it and again cover the stuffing with batter.
4. Put idli mold in the cooker and cover the lid without the whistle and steam it for 5 minutes on medium flame and for 5 minutes on low flame.
5. Turn off the gas and remove molds from the cooker. Let it cool a bit.
6. Remove prepared idli from the molds.
7. Serve idlis with kiwi dates dip.