Quinoa idli | How to make Quinoa Idly | Healthy Idli Recipes | Easy idli Recipes

Now a days I am trying different varieties of idli and as a first step I tried this Quinoa idli and it came soft and spongy and nobody believed that it is made up of quinoa. The remaining batter I even used to prepare the dosa also and it also came out good. Lets see how to prepare this Quinoa Idli.

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How to make Quinoa Idli

Preparation time: 7 min (excluding soaking time: 8 hrs + 40 min grinding) | Cook Time: 10 min | Serves: 5

Recipe Category: Break fast | Recipe Cuisine: South Indian

Ingredients

Idli rice - 3 cups

Quinoa - 2 cups

Urud dal - 1 cup

Flattened Rice (aval / poha) - 1 cup

Fenugreek seeds - 2 tbsp

Salt - 1/4 tsp

Water - as required

Method

1. Soak the rice and fenugreek seeds. This should be soaked for 5 to 6 hrs. 

2. Soak the quinoa and Urud dal 1 hr before grinding the rice. In the grinder, add the rice, fenugreek seeds and quinoa and add water little by little and start grinding. 

3. Add the Urud dal and flattened rice to the grinder and and grind to the smooth paste. Add water now and then. Add salt to it. The batter should not too thick or too watery.

4. Once it has reached its medium consistency then remove from the grinder and transfer to the vessel. Allow to ferment overnight or 8 hrs atleast. After fermentation, the batter would have raised in volume. Give a mix slightly and now the batter is ready for preparing the idli. 

5. Now in the idli moulds, add the idli batter and steam cook for 7 to 8 min or till idli gets cooked. 

6. Serve the hot hot idlis with Sambar or chutney. I seved with normal sambar and peanut chutney. 

Yummy, soft and spongy Quinoa Idli is ready

Notes: 
1. I have added aval, in order to make idlis more soft. You can prepare without adding also.
2. You can vary the ratio of the idli rice and quinoa and try it. But do not reduce the rice less than 2 cups, as I cannot guarantee the softness of the idli. Do not reduce the ratio of urud dal. Maintain it as 5:1 for rice+quinoa and dal.

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Quinoa Payasam / Quinoa kheer / Payasam Recipes

I never heard about quinoa until I came into the blogging world. Hope many of you also like me. First time I saw this in Mustafa Centre, but did not buy as I have no idea what to do. After that I searched net and came across some great recipes. I saw many of our friends trying this payasam and I too thought of trying the sweet recipe first, which also suits for my event.

Ingredients

• Quinoa seeds - 1 cup
• Water - 2 cups
• Salt - a pinch (optional)
• Milk - 3/4 litre
• Sugar - 1.5 cups (adjust accordingly to the sweetness)
• Nuts - few cashews, almonds, pista
• Raisins - few
• Few strands of saffron
• Ghee for frying the nuts - 1 tsp

Method

• Wash and cook quinoa with 2 cups of water and salt in the pressure cooker for 3 whistles.

• In a small pan, add ghee and fry the nuts and raisins and keep aside.
• In a wide pan, add the milk and saffron and allow the milk to boil.

• Now add in the cooked quinoa and sugar and let it cook for 5 minutes.

• Add the fried nuts and raisins, give a stir.
• Healthy and delicious quinoa payasam is ready to be served. 

Note: 
Quinoa can be cooked without the pressure cooker also, but takes more than 10 min.
Salt is optional. We used to add a pinch of salt as we feel it enhances the taste.

This goes to my event Dish name starts with Q