Flower Idlis

~ Flower Power ~

Making cute food is my passion - its so fun

making all the cute colorful edibles . The biggest

reward for all this funlicious food is surely the million

dollar smile that I see on my lil ones face ...Healthy food

week is going on at her school so kiddos are expected to

get food from the set menu .Today was Idli day n she

wanted something different - "Mom u already made the

cartoon idlis last time -pl i want something new like flower

idlis" ( ah poor me!!) .So I spent an hour last night thinking over

the execution .....& guess what- I ended using the newly made

plastic stencils ( which of course i had made to stencil paint

a table cloth) on these foody creations .......Should I call

it flower power or pretty food power that my hubby dear

who is not that fond of idlis was tempted to eat these

for breakfast too !!!

Flower Food

Idlis - (steamed rice cakes ) (linked recipe video ) .

To create flower idlis-

cut a stencil of the desired pattern on a hard plastic

sheet or tetra pack carton. Keep the stencil on the

idli n put desired food color with your finger or

a cleaned unused brush. ( natural colors - like beet ,

spinach juice or dissolved turmeric works fine too )

Tiffin Garden

Idlis , beet juice extract as color for the

stenciled flowers

This edible stencil printing works well with breads , tortillas ,

rotis n crepes too .

Also see my previous Idli creations - Cartoon Idlis

- The Lion Idli & the Mousy Mania