Cookware · Hearths
Idli steamer
Stacked plates with dimples: fermented rice-and-lentil batter steamed into breakfast.
The journey
Idli is a steam cake. Tamil and Kannada kitchens still pour a fermented batter of rice and urad into greased molds, stack them in a steamer, and eat the result with chutney and sambar. The pot is how a soft batter becomes a bread you can pick up.
A bamboo steamer can hold ramekins. The idli stand is the dimples that already know the size.
In the kitchen
Grease the molds. Fill three-quarters. Steam until a toothpick comes clean. Do not open early.
The Indian volume's South Indian breakfasts assume this stack. A rice cooker with an insert can stand in.