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Almost every single article about weight loss and getting healthy explains readers to avoid drive through windows like the plague and that they need to perform all of their own cooking. This is really very true. But sometimes the last thing you would like to do is make a whole supper for yourself and your family. Sometimes you just want to go to the drive through on the way home and call it a day. There isn’t any reason that you shouldn’t be allowed to do this and not be suffering from guilt about slipping on your diet. This may be possible because plenty of the popular fast food destinations are attempting to make their menus healthier now. Here is how to eat healthy and balanced when you reach the drive through.
Concentrate on the sides. Not too long ago, the only side dish item available at a fast food restaurant was French fries. Now most of the fast food menus have been widened considerably. Now you can find several different salads. You might get chili. You can also buy a baked potato. You can make fruit. There are a lot of possibilities that don’t require eating one thing deep fried. When choosing your meal from the drive through, select a variety of side items instead of choosing a pre-made “meal deal”. This helps you keep the calorie count low and reduce your fat intake.
Fundamental reason states that the best way to lose pounds and get healthy is to ban fast food from your diet altogether. Most of the time this is a good idea but if you make beneficial choices, there is no reason you can’t visit your drive through once in a while. Sometimes what you need most is just to have someone else do the cooking. When you want healthy menu items, you do not have to feel bad about visiting the drive through.
We hope you got insight from reading it, now let’s go back to idli recipe. You can cook idli using 22 ingredients and 19 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to prepare Idli:
- Get For SAMBHAR:
- Get 2 tsp oil
- Get 1 tsp mustard seeds
- Get 1/4 tsp methi / fenugreek
- Prepare pinch hing / asafoetida
- Take Few curry leaves
- Take 2 chillies, slit
- Take 1 tomato, chopped
- Use 1/2 carrot, chopped
- Prepare 1 potato, cubed
- Use 5 beans, chopped
- Provide 5 pieces drumstick
- Use 1/2 brinjal / baingan, cubed
- Use 1/4 tsp turmeric
- Take 1/2 tsp jaggery
- You need 1 tsp salt
- Prepare 1 cup water
- Prepare For Idli Batter-
- Get 1 cup(200 grams) urad dal
- Provide 1 teaspoon fenugreek seeds
- Provide 4 cups( 800 grams) idli rice
- Use 2 teaspoons sendha namak, rock salt
Instructions to make Idli:
- Rinse the urad dal under running water. Then soak the dal in enough water (2-3 cups) for around 5 to 6 hours. Add 1 teaspoon methi seeds to the dal while it's soaking.
- Rinse the rice under running water until water turns clear. Then soak the rice in enough water for around 5 to 6 hours, same time as the dal. - After 5 to 6 hours have passed, drain the water from the dal. Transfer the dal to the blender (or any grinder that you use).
- Add 1.25 (10 oz) to 1.5 cups (12 oz) ice-cold water and grind the dal to a fine paste. I use my blender and press the smoothie or soup button usually. - Transfer the ground dal to the steel pot of your Instant Pot (if using IP to ferment the batter) or to any other large container.
- Now drain the rice and add it to the same blender along with 1.5 (12 oz) to 2 cups (16 oz) ice-cold water. Grind rice to a smooth paste. The amount of water will depend on the type of rice/dal you use. So, start with a lesser amount and add more water as needed.
- Now, transfer the ground rice to the same pot as the dal. Add sendha namak (rock salt) to the rice and dal mixture. - Now, start using your hands and mix the salt and the batter together for 1-2 minutes using your hands. Mixing by hands help in the fermentation process. - The consistency of the batter should be free-flowing, but it shouldn't be runny.
- Now cover the pot with a glass lid (if using Instant Pot) or with any other lid if using regular container. The reason I use glass lid for fermenting the batter in Instant Pot and not it's regular lid is because the batter may overflow and that can lock the lid. So it's better to use a glass lid.
- If using Instant Pot for fermentation, now press the Yogurt button. Increase the time to 12-14 hours. The time will depend on where you leave. Here it takes around 12-14 hours for the batter to ferment.
- If not using an Instant Pot, cover the container and place in an oven with lights on (especially if you leave in a cold place). If you leave in a very warm place, then simply keep the batter on the counter to ferment.
- After 14 hours, my batter was well fermented. It had increased in volume and was frothy and bubbly.
- To check you can also drop a small drop of batter in a bowl with clean water. The batter should float which means it's fermented. If not then it needs more time for fermentation.
- You can now use this idli dosa batter to make soft idli and crispy dosa!
- To make idli: Grease idli plates and then fill them with the batter. Steam in a steamer for 10 to 12 minutes on high heat or in an Instant Pot for 13 mins with pressure valve in venting position (with 1 cup water in the pot to generate steam). - Please note that when IP is in the venting position, it doesn't display the time, so use an external timer.
- Cool for a minute or two and take idlis out of plates. Serve with sambar and coconut chutney.
- Firstly, in a large kadhai heat, 2 tsp oil and splutter tempering. - add 4 shallots, 2 chilli and saute for a minute till it changes colour. - further, add 1 tomato and continue to cook.
- Now add mixed vegetables and saute for 2 minutes.
- Further, add ¼ tsp turmeric, ½ tsp jaggery, 1 tsp salt and 1 cup water. - mix well, cover and boil for 10 minutes. - now add ¾ cup tamarind extract and mix well.
- Cover and boil for 10 minutes. - additionally, add 1 cup toor dal, water and mix well.
- Add in 4 tsp of prepared sambar powder. - boil for a minute, until the flavors are well absorbed. - add in 2 tbsp coriander leaves and mix well.
- Finally, enjoy idli sambar with hot steamed idli.
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