Comments on: Brown Rice Idlis

By: Madhuram

Madhuram — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 02:36:37 +0000

Hi Anuradha, thank you for trying the recipe. I grind brown rice in the grinder all the time and don’t find it difficult at all. I have used both long grain and short grain brown rices so far and soak it overnight usually. Of course it takes more time than grinding plain white rice but its definitely possible. What I usually do is, with the grinder on I add about 1/2 cup of water first and then add the rice. This makes it quite easy. Why don’t you try this?

By: Anuradha R

Anuradha R — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:25:56 +0000

Hi Madhu,

I used 100% whole grain unprocessed Brown rice for this recipe and even I soak the rice for 20 hours, it is still hard and not able to grind in wet grinder. So first i grinded in a mixie and then transferred it to the wet grinder. There are lot of varieties of brown rice in the store. Are all same? What kind of rice we have to use for this recipe?

Thank you for posting nutritious dishes.

By: jayasri

jayasri — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 09:51:56 +0000

Beautiful looking Idlis Madhu, how are the kids ? and how are you ? you must be very busy these days, Happy new year, before I forget, I have not used Brown rice much, I must try out this it looks delicious

By: Divya

Divya — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 14:35:32 +0000

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By: Lakshmi

Lakshmi — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:18:49 +0000

Hi! Madhu,Only recently I found out about your blog & have reading them pretty often.Nice recipes!!.Can I substitute short grain brown rice the recipe??Recently I baked a b’day cake for my hubby substituting flaxseed meal for eggs.came out pretty well & very moist.

I’m sorry Lakshmi for not having answered your question for such a long time. It has been a while since I logged into this site. Yes you could use short grain brown rice also.

By: POORVI

POORVI — Tue, 18 May 2010 07:24:38 +0000

Your tip of keeping Soaked Urad dal in the refrigerator helped…I should have read your blog before spoiling one blender of mine .THANKS A TON

You’re welcome Poorvi.

By: spice

spice — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:22:48 +0000

All the best for new blog, Madhuram….

By: Sadhana

Sadhana — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 03:58:08 +0000

The brown rice idli looks delicious, best wishes for the new blog.

By: Maven

Maven — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:51:32 +0000

I have a vitamix blender. Would it grind the urad dal and rice sufficiently do you think? I am just beginning to explore Indian inspired foods, so I have no frame of reference.

Hi Maven, I think it should grind it well. I’m hearing a lot of good stuff about Vitamix.

By: rajeshwari

rajeshwari — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:01:15 +0000

hi madhuram.. all the best wishes for your new site and looking forward for all the tasty recipes coming out of your kitchen.

Thanks Rajeswari.