Recipe - Cream Of Wheat Cakes With Petite Peas | Rava Idli

1 cup Cream of wheat; quick
cooking
1 cup Lowfat buttermilk; PLUS
2 tablespoon Lowfat buttermilk
One fourth cup Finely chopped onion
2 tablespoon Petite peas; thawed
1 One half Fresh hot green chiles;
stemmed and chopped
1 tablespoon Peanut oil; divided use
One fourth teaspoon Cumin seed
One half teaspoon Mustard seed
One half teaspoon Salt
One fourth teaspoon Baking soda
Lettuce leaves; washed and
crisped

1. Combine the cream of wheat and 1 cup buttermilk in a medium bowl. Mix
well, cover, and set aside for 1 to 2 hours.

2. Stir the onion, peas, and chiles into the batter. Heat half the oil in a
small frying pan over mediumhigh heat and add the cumin and mustard. When
the seeds begin to sizzle and sputter, remove from the heat. Cool slightly
and fold into the batter. Stir in the remaining buttermilk, salt, and
baking soda and mix well.

3. Fill a pan for steaming with water to within One half inch of the steaming
rack and bring to a boil. Lightly coat an 8inch square cake pan with the
rest of the oil and pour in the batter. Place the cake pan on the rack,
cover, and steam until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean, 8 to
10 minutes.

4. Turn off the heat and let the cake rest 5 minutes. Cut it into diamonds
and ease out with a metal spatula. To serve, line a basket with lettuce
leaves and arrange the cakes on top. Serve hot or warm; as a side dish with
salad or vegetables.

Note: This batter can also be steamed in muffin pans. You can also double
the recipe and make a second idli in the same pan; just rub it with a
little more oil. The idli may be steamed ahead of time and set aside up to
4 hours at room temperature or refrigerated up to 2 days. Reheat in a
steamer basket.

Serve 4 to 6; 20 mins prep plus 1 to 2 hours soaking. Recipe from LAXMI'S
VEGETARIAN KITCHEN, by Laxmi Hiremath. (1995: Harlow & Ratner) Edited by
Pat Hanneman McServing 21% cff: 157 cals, 3.6 g fat.

Submitted to McRecipe 19Mar98

Serving Ideas : Warm Cabbage Salad with Cracked Pepper

Recipe by: LAXMI'S VEGETARIAN KITCHEN*

Posted to MCRecipe Digest by KitPATh phannema@wizard.ucr.edu on Mar 19,
1998