🇮🇳 Indian Vegetarian

Bottle Gourd Idli

Name: Bottle Gourd Idli
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 3 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 cup Yogurt; 1/2 tsp Baking Powder; 1 cup Rice Flour; 2 cups Bottle Gourd

🇮🇳 Indian

Made from a properly fermented batter, this is the tiffin-house classic at its best: light, tangy and crisp in exactly the right places. 30 minutes of mostly hands-off cooking.

Prep 15 min Cook 15 min Serves 3 Easy

Ingredients

Yogurt1 cup
Baking Powder1/2 tsp
Rice Flour1 cup
Bottle Gourd2 cups

Optional extras

Fresh Cilantrofor chutney
Coconutfor chutney

Instructions

1
Stir the bottle gourd with yogurt, salt, baking powder and water into a thick pouring batter; rest 15 minutes.
2
Pour into greased idli moulds and steam 10-12 minutes; a skewer should come out clean. Rest 2 minutes before unmoulding.
3
Serve hot with sambar and coconut-cilantro chutney.

Chef's tip

Fermented batter smells faintly sour and lifts with a spoon — trust your nose.

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Watch how it's made

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