Chilli idli. Chilli idli recipe with step by step photos - spicy Indo Chinese recipe of chilli idli fry. A tasty way to use leftover idlis. At times I steam extra Idlis, just to make this recipe of chilli idli.
Chilli Idli Fry is on my todo since long but I was holding myself thinking of the deep frying part. As regular readers might know as I always think of alternates for deep frying. I even thought of baking the idlis but then my new little iron kadai motivated me to deep fry…Yes I need these kind of silly motivations for deep frying…So I decided to make a small batch so that the consumption is. You can cook Chilli idli using 11 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Chilli idli
- It's 12 of Idli.
- Prepare 1 of Onion.
- It's 1/2 of Capsicum.
- You need of Green chilli 2nos.
- You need 1 inch of Ginger.
- You need of Garlic cloves 2.
- It's 1/4 tsp of Chilli sauce.
- It's 1/2 tsp of Tomato ketchup.
- It's 1/2 tsp of Soy sauce.
- You need of Cornflour or gramflour.
- You need of Mix it into water.
Add the cubed bell peppers,salt,sugar,chilli powder,turmeric powder and tomato sauce (if using). Mix well and cook till the masala leaves out oil. Add the fried idlis and mix gently. U all would have tried chilli parotta, chilli Paneer, Gobi etc.
Chilli idli instructions
- You can prepare idle newly or else it be prepared before day night (it's your choice).
- After preparing idle cut it into 4 equal parts..
- You have to cut one onion, in that 1/4 onion can cut finely chopped, other part is cut into cube shape.
- Heat 5tbps oil,once it heated added idle into oil and fry it. Until it turns into crisp and golden brown..
- Once it turns into golden brown strain oil and keep idle aside(fry all idle).
- Heat the pan add 2tps oil.once it heated add finely grated ginger and garlic it turns little golden. Add finely chopped onion cook until it's soft. Add capsicum mix well and add required amount of salt.
- Add chilli sauce, soysauce, tomato ketchup mix well until it's binding..
- After bind add cube onion and mix well(don't over cook). Coz we need bed crisp texture..
- Need to pour cornflour or gramflour into the pan..
- Add already fried idle and just mix into the sauce.u can see the idle changing color..
- Enjoy with tomato ketchup..
This one is a very tasty,kids friendly dish that can be prepared easily. U can make this as evening snack after they come back from school. I took this recipe from a website. Yesterday i tried this for dinner along with idli and kadappa. How to Make Simple Homemade Indo Chinese Food