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.