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Chlorophyl Idli or Kottaku Butta

The Chlorophyl Idli or Kottaku Butta is nutritious since it's cooked in green leaves. It's ideal to be packed during travel since it does not spoil for 48 -72 hours.

Ingredients

For the batter

Raw rice rawa: two cups

Idli dal (urad dal): One cup

Salt to taste

Carrot, peeled and grated: one cup

Coriander leaves, chopped: optional (for stuffed idli)

For making Butta (basket)

Tender leaves of jackfruit tree or badam leaves

Pieces of thin toothpicks

Method

(i) Batter

Soak idli dal in water for one hour. Soak raw rice rawa for half an hour. Grind the soaked idli dal, wash the soaked raw rice rawa and mix it with salt.

Add this to ground idli dal.

(ii) Butta (basket)

Take four tender leaves of jackfruit tree and join them at the base with thin toothpick pieces; then lift the ends of the leaves to form a basket by joining the edges. Make about 12 such buttas.

(iii) Preparing the chlorophyll idli

Take the butta and place three to four spoonfuls of the batter into it. Place the buttas in one plate of the idli stand and steam it in the idli cooker for 10 minutes.

Stuffed idli

For children, a stuffing of grated carrot with a few chopped coriander leaves can be added to the batter to give colour and flavour to the idli. Serve idlis hot with imli chutney or coconut chutney.

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