Today on World Idli Day, we bring to you some lesser known facts about this healthy dish and some interesting recipes too.
- It is considered as one of the best food for breakfast in the world? Though it hasn’t been officially declared by any organisation.
- Made out of rice and urad dal, it is easily digestible and research shows that people who ate Idlis for breakfast for a month straight actually experienced weight loss over people who did not.
- The earliest mention of Idli occurs in the Kannada writing called Vaddaradhane by Shivakotiacharya in 920 AD.
- For soft idlis always follow a 4:1 ratio with four parts of rice and one part of urad dal is left to soak overnight.
- No yeast, no baking soda etc are required to make soft and fluffy idlis.
