Saturday, September 26, 2009

Kaima Idli - Saravana Bhavan special!

I havent even heard about this kaima idli till I saw it in Lavis blog. So wanted to give a try, I followed the recipe with no major change, hmm I just omitted deep frying.

Kaima Idli

Ingredients:
Left Over Idli's: 3
Onion - 1
Tomato - 1/2
Garlic - 3 pods
Green Chilies - 1
Green Capsicum - 1/2
Curry Leaves - 5 to 6
CorrianderLeaves - 2tsp
[Dont search in mine, my stock got over so didnt use it ;)]
Oil - 2 tbsp
Chilly Powder - 1/2 tsp [Adjust according to your spice level]
Salt to taste
Lemon juice - 1 tbsp

Finely chop onion, tomato, garlic, capsicum, greenchillies and coriander leaves.

Method:
1.Cut the idli's into small cubes and saute them in oil till it becomes light brown and keep it aside. You can also deep fry the idlies which is what the orginal recipe says.

2.Drizzle oil in a pan, add mustard and allow it to splutter. Add onions,then garlic, curry leaves and saute well.

3.Add tomatoes and saute it well, so that its mashy with onions, add salt, turmeric powder and mix well.Now add capsicum, saute them well and add chilli powder. Keep stirring continuosly till its combined well.

4.Add the idlies, mix well till it combines well with all masalas.Garnish with corriander leaves, sprinkle lemon juice over the kaima idli's.

5.Serve these spicy kaima idlis with onion patchadi.

I did reserve only 3 idlis this time and the kaima idlis finished off in no time!

5 comments:

  1. I was waiting for this post...
    Pass on the plate, you make me drool!

    To get the red colour, fry idli's till they turn golden colour and use kashmiri chilli powder.

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  2. Hmm looks delicious isnt it? an excellent way to use the leftover idlis :)

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  3. Aaa Saravana bhawan special...kaima idly, lovely!:)

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  4. first time here. nice clicks sharmilee. Kaima idly is my fav too. and the valakai podimas is very inviting.bookmarked.

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