The unique texture and taste of this idli, typical to a village close to Palakkad, is unlike any other. And now this dish is inching its way into menus of specialty restaurants. The first ever mention of idli in literature seems to have been in Shivakotyacharya’s Vaddaradhane, a Kannada work from 920 AD. as one of the eighteen items served when a lady offers refreshment to a brahmachari, who visits her home.