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Ragi Flour idli / Nachni / Finger Millets Idli

South Indian style, Instant, Mix & Make Breakfast using Ragi Flour / Finger Millet Flour. Recipe below has step wise pics, tips, full video for both stove top & instant pot methods.

Recipe Cooked, Photographed and Written by Praveena

PrepTime:10 mins   CookTime:20 mins   Cuisine:Indian

Idli is the most common and popular breakfast foods of South India. Its made of fermenting the lentil batter and steaming the batter in a specific idli pan.

Idli is considered as the healthiest breakfast items of the world because of its properties of Fermented Batter, No Oil, No Fry, Vegan, Gluten free, Lentil & Rice based batter, cooked upon steaming.

There are many varieties of Idli(s) made with different batters, while the below recipe is an Instant, No Soaking, No Grinding, Just Mix & Make, style idli made with Ragi (Finger Millets/ Nachni) Flour. 

Table of Contents:

  1. Possible Alterations for the recipe, ‘Instant Ragi Flour Idli / Nachni Idli’:
  2. Health Benefits of ‘Ragi Flour Instant idli / Instant Finger Millets Idli’:
  3. How to serve, ‘Instant Ragi Flour idli / Finger Millet Flour idli’:
  4. Other recipes from my blog:
  5. Full Video from my You Tube Channel:
  6. Step wise pics Procedure for ‘Ragi Flour idli / Instant Finger millets Flour idli’:
  7. Prep Work:
  8. Make the Batter:
  9. Arrange the idli Steamer:
  10. Steaming Ragi Flour idli:
  11. Tips:
  12. Result:
  13. Ingredients, Accessories on ‘AMAZON’ to ‘SHOP’:
  14. Recipe Card & Print:

Possible Alterations for the recipe, ‘Instant Ragi Flour Idli / Nachni Idli’:

Other Ingredients to add: For additional taste, you can add few cashew nuts, chopped coriander leaves, a tablespoon of ghee, grated carrot to the batter.

Alternative idli pans: You can pour the batter in a round cake tin, steam it in a wide bottomed vessel and cut them into desired pieces.

Without using rava/semolina: This is not possible, as its used for binding purpose.

Health Benefits of ‘Ragi Flour Instant idli / Instant Finger Millets Idli’:

Ragi/Finger Millets: is a whole grain that is gluten-free, rich in fibre that helps with weight loss and diabetes.

It’s packed with calcium, good carbs, amino acids and Vitamin D. And is easily digestible by infants and kids.

To Conclude: This recipe is best suitable for Diabetic friendly, Low Calories, Vegetarian, Kids friendly diets.

How to serve, ‘Instant Ragi Flour idli / Finger Millet Flour idli’:

As shown in the picture below, we had these idli(s) with Courgettes / Zucchini Chutney / Nethi-Beerakaya Pachchadi and Instant Coconut Chutney / Kobbari Pachchadi.

Here are few chutney and podi recipes from my blog, suitable for idli.

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Before starting to cook, don’t forget to see the Tips mentioned at the end.

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Ingredients:

  • Ragi Flour / Finger Millet Flour / Nachni Flour – 1 cup
  • Semolina / Upma Rava / Sooji – 1 cup
  • Homemade Curd / Plain Yogurt / Greek Yogurt – 1 cup
  • Baking Soda / Cooking Soda / Eno – 1 teaspoon
  • Salt –  1½ teaspoons (or) as per taste 
  • Water – 1½ cups (or) as required

Special Ingredients:

  • Baking Soda / Cooking Soda
  • Curd / Yogurt

Step wise pics Procedure for ‘Ragi Flour idli / Instant Finger millets Flour idli’:

Prep Work:

Make the Batter:

Firstly, put a sauce pan on stove top under medium flame. Add the semolina/rava and dry roast, until the colour of semolina slightly changes & you get a pleasant aroma (takes 2-3 mins).
Switch the flame off and let it cool down a bit. Add the ragi / finger millet flour, salt and baking/cooking soda into the same vessel.
Mix everything, then add the curd/yogurt to the same. Now, add water as required and mix everything thoroughly into a smooth batter.

Arrange the idli Steamer:

Apply oil to the idli pans and pour in the batter into them, up to ¾ level. Stack up the idli pans. Put the stack in an idli steamer or into a wide bottomed vessel filled with 2 cups of water.

Steaming Ragi Flour idli:

Close the lid, steam them on stove top under high flame for 10-12 mins. Switch the flame off, leave the vessel unopened for 5 more mins.  
Take the idli stand out of the steamer. Using a wet spoon, gently scoop out each idli from the mould.
Ragi/Millet/Bhakri Idli taken out of steamer and ready to be served. Done!

Tips:

  • Whatever might be the size of the cup the ratio of flour:rava:curd is 1:1:1
  • Vegans can use a plant-based yogurt for this recipe. 
  • Be careful while dry roasting the rava/semolina, so that you don’t burn.
  • Don’t add too much water while making the batter.
  • Adjust the salt as per your taste.
  • Before steaming, you can rest the batter for 20-30 mins, if you wish to. But I didn’t, I used it right away.
  • Storage: These, Ragi Flour idli / Nachni / Finger millets idli can be re-heated and served even when they are steamed a day before.
  • The batter stays good up to 2 days when stored in fridge.

Result:

ragi / bhakri / finger millets idli in Instant pot / stove top
Ragi/Millet/Bhakri Idli served with coconut chutney and zuchchini/courgettes chutney

Ingredients, Accessories on ‘AMAZON’ to ‘SHOP’:

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Recipe Card & Print:

Instant Ragi idli / Finger Millets Flour Idli / Nachni Idli Recipe

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South Indian style, Instant, Mix & Make Breakfast using Ragi Flour / Finger Millet Flour. Recipe below has step wise pics, tips, full video for both stove top & instant pot methods.
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Course Breakfast, Dinner
Cuisine Indian, South Indian
Servings 12 count

Equipment

  • Frying pan (for stove-top method)
  • Instant Pot or Electric Pressure Cooker
  • Idli steamer / Wide bottomed vessel

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup Ragi Flour / Finger Millet Flour / Nachni Flour
  • 1 cup Semolina / Upma Rava / Sooji
  • 1 cup Homemade Curd / Plain Yogurt
  • 1 teaspoon Baking Soda / Cooking Soda / Eno fruit salt
  • teaspoons Salt (or as per taste)
  • cups Water (or as required)

Instructions
 

Prep Work:

  • Measure the ingredients and gather everything at one place.

Make the Batter:

  • Put a frying pan on stove top under medium flame.
    Add the semolina/rava and dry roast, until the colour of semolina/rava slightly changes and you get a pleasant aroma (takes 3-4 mins). 
  • Switch the flame off and let it cool down a bit.
    Add the ragi / finger millet / bhakri flour, salt and baking / cooking soda into the same bowl.
  • Mix everything and then add the curd/yogurt to the bowl.
    Now, add water as required and mix everything thoroughly into a smooth batter.

Arrange the idli Steamer:

  • Apply oil to the idli pans and pour in the batter into them, up to ¾ level.

Steaming Ragi Flour idli on STOVE TOP:

  • Put the pans into an idli steamer or into a wide bottomed vessel filled with 2 cups of water.
    Close the lid, steam them under high flame for 10-12 mins.
    Then switch the flame off and leave the vessel unopened for 3 more mins.

Steaming Ragi Flour idli in INSTANT POT:

  • Fill the pot with 2 cups of water. Saute for 2 mins until the water boils.
    Put the idli stand in the pot, close the lid, put valve for VENTING.
    Select STEAM mode under HIGH pressure for 10 mins (use an external timer) and remove the lid only after 3 more mins.

Serving:

  • Gently take the idli(s) out of the idli pan with a wet spoon and serve!! Done!! 

Notes

Please see the MAIN POST for recipe with step wise PICS, TIPS & full VIDEO.
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14 comments

  1. Thanx for Recipe. It came out pretty good but it was on little dry side instead of nicely soft. Please suggest what variable I should fix to get soft idli’s. Thank you

    1. Hi AS! Most welcome! And thank you for your nice feedback! 🙂 Reason might be the quality of semolina / rava. Just adjust the water you add for making the batter, might be add a bit more and even steam for 2 more mins and see. Hope this helps. 🙂

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