Red Rice Millets Idli Dosa Batter Video Recipe - Nitha Kitchen (2024)

Red Rice Millets Idli Dosai Batter : Being a South Indian Idli Dosa Batter is a must at home, no day pass by without it. Honestly our regular idli dosa batter always has mixed millets in it. Last year when we went to India for vacation my son asked “Why ma these idlis looks white in color and not ours” 🙂 . From their childhood I made them used to millets idlis and dosa varieties and once or twice in a week multi grain mini podi idlis will go in their school lunch box. I buy

millets in Indian Grocery Store and sometimes it comes from my MIL or SIL. Few years back we had brown rice / kerala matta rice for every day cooking. So in few of my previous multi grain idli dosa batter recipes you may notice brown rice addition. Now kids grown up, feeling hard to eat so I cook ponni boiled rice. I cut half proportion of Idli Rice and substitute Red Rice in this Red Rice Millets Idli Dosai Batter Video Recipe to make it even more healthy. Also I have made a short video which covers how to remove stones from millets.

Its not a so professional video but I tried my best and hope its useful to many. Whenever my younger one feels hungry he asks amma I want Dosa with Podi. Are you curious to know whats his favorite Idli Podi? do check it HERE. Also I will post one more Idli Podi Recipe Soon.

Millets Idli Dosa Batter Ingredients

White or Red Cholam / Sorghum / Jowar – 1 Cup
Thinai / Foxtail Millet – 1 Cup
Samai / Samo / Little Millet – 1 Cup
Red Rice /Brown Rice/Mapillai Samba – 2 Cups
Kuthiraivaali / Barnyard Millet – 1 Cup
Idli Rice – 2 Cups
Whole Urad Dal / Gota – 1.75 Cups
Fenugreek Seeds – 1.5 Tbsp
Water and Salt – As Needed

How to make Red Rice Millets Idli Dosa Batter

• Soak all the millets in a bowl with necessary water.
• After 15 minutes do remove the stones as shown in the video, discard those water, wash two or three times and allow to soak.
• Wash and Soak the rice varieties separately.
• After 3 hours of millets and rice soak, do wash and soak urad dal and fenugreek in a separate bowl.
• 1 hour later start grinding the millets and rice combo.
• What I do is , the rice and millets are 8 cups in total. so i add 6 cups in first batch (refer picture below) and in the second batch 2 cups of remaining rice millet mixture goes with urad dal mixture.
• Once they soaked up everything increases in volume just explaining how I do usually.

• Grind the rice and millet mixture ie 1st batch to coarse texture and not so fine (35 – 40 minutes in grinder).
• For the second batch add the remaining soaked millets and rice mixture first, after 5 minutes add the dal and fenugreek mixture.
• Grind this batch to very smooth texture say 45- 50 minutes in grinder.
• Add salt and mix all the ground batter evenly, you can split it in 2 or 3 bowl as needed (yes need enough room to ferment).
• Cover the batter and allow it to ferment in warm place for 6 to 8 hours and in winter maximum 12 hours but not more than that.
• You can use Instant Pot to ferment this batter.
• Later make Idli or Dosa or Paniyaram / Appe as desired and serve like shown here with Sambar dolloped with ghee and chutneys (Curry Leaves Thogayal and Peanut Chutney) .
• Store the remaining batter in refrigerator for up to 7 days.

Video Tutorial

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Notes

1. Feel free to use available millets in your pantry and you can halve the recipe.
2. The batter no need to be so thick while grinding and before making idlis, do dilute to the right consistency.
3. For dosas do add little more water than idli batter.
4. Also you can soak them first and then remove stones before grinding.
5. You can add whole ragi or ragi flour to the ground batter.
6. Kambu , Varagu , Pani Varagu anything works here.
7. Instead of Red Rice use Brown Rice or Kavuni Rice (black rice), mine is Red Kavuni Rice.
8. If you like to grind this in mixer/mixie then soak rice and millets for 2 more hours.