Thursday, March 1, 2012

Sevai ( Home made rice noodles)


This recipe serves 2 adults.

Ingredients:
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  • Idly rice                 -       250 grams 
  • Salt                        -       according to taste
  • Water                     -       as required.
Method:
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  • Wash the rice 2 to 3 times.
  • Soak the rice in water for 2 hours.
  • Add water little by little and grind the soaked rice with salt into a very smooth paste with a grinder.
  • The consistency of the ground batter should be shown below.
  • In a kadai, add a laddle or 1/8th cup of gingelly oil.
  • To it, add the ground batter and keep stirring on a medium flame till it becomes a soft dough as shown below.
  • Keep aside to cool down to room temperature.
  • Dip your hands in water and make into dumplings as shown below.
  • Steam the dumplings for 15 min.The outer layer will turn shiny.
  • To make sevai, you need a sevai maker as shown below. There are also other types available in the market.
  • The dumplings have to be put in the sevai maker when it is hot otherwise it will harden very much.
  • So after 15 min of steaming, take 1 or 2 dumplings from the steamer with a fork and put it immediately in the sevai maker.
  • Close and keep the remaining dumplings in the steamer itself so that it remains hot.
  • Rotate the handle of sevai maker. Place a plate beneath the sevai maker.As you turn the handle,hold the legs of the sevai maker so that it does not move.Rice noodles will emerge from the holes as shown.
  • Repeat the process for all the dumplings.
  • Basic homemade rice noodles is ready. You can flavour it as per your choice.


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