Akki Roti Recipe / Rice (Arisi) Roti

Akki roti /  arisi roti is a rice flour based flat bread for breakfast from Karnataka Cusine. Akki means rice in kanada. This is healthy and gluten free recipe. You can make this for evening snacks and dinner too. You can serve this with any spicy chutney. 

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Recipe Cuisine : South Indian / Karnataka| Recipe Category: Breakfast

Preparation Time: 10 mins | Cooking Time: 15 mins |  Yields : 5 nos.

Ingredients:

Rice Flour (Recipe HERE)	1 cup (1 cup = 240 ml)
Grated Carrot	½ cup
Green Chilli	1
Cumin Seeds	1 tsp
Finely Chopped Onion	½ - 1 cup
Finely Chopped Coriader Leaves	2 tbsp
Salt	1 tsp

Procedure:

1. Peel the skin of the carrot and grate them using the grater.

2. Wash and chop the coriander leaves into fine pieces.

3. Remove the skin of the onion and chop them into very thin and fine pieces.

4. Wash and remove the stem of the green chilli. Then chop it into small circles.

5. In a wide bowl, add rice flour, carrot, onion, coriander leaves, green chillies, cumin seeds and salt.

6. Mix them with the wire wish or with your fingers.

7. Add water little by little and knead it into a soft and pliable dough.  Keep it aside for 5-10 mins.

8. Divide the dough into tomato size balls.

9. Spread over few drops of oil on the plastic sheet or banana leaf.

10. Now place the dough on the sheet and flatten the ball using the fingers. [Grease your fingers with oil].

11. Now heat the tawa and place rotti on the tawa. Pour oil along the sides of the rotti.

12. Cook both sides of the roti till black spots appear on it.

   

        Yummy and delicious Akki Roti / Rice Roti / Arisi Roti is ready! Serve with tomato chutney.

Note:

1. Ensure that the consistency of the dough is neither too loose nor too tight.

2.  You can add grated coconut also.

3. You can use either small onion or big onion.

4. Carrot is optional.

5. You can use store bought rice flour also.

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Chinese Steamed Rice Cake Recipe ( Rice Fa gao ) | International Recipes

In India we prepare so many Idli varieties but none of them are sweet. The Chinese are making steamed rice cakes which is nothing but sweet idli from rice flour without urad dal. Its interesting that they are adding yeast for fermentation. The taste is very unique and this is the idli recipe which you can’t miss.

Recipe Cuisine : International / China | Recipe Category: Cake 

 Preparation Time: 10 mins  | Cooking Time : 17 mins |  Yields : 5-7

Source: chinasichuanfood

Ingredients:

Rice Flour ( Recipe HERE)	1 cup ( 240ml)
Maida	¼ cup
Sugar	1/3 cup
Hot Water	1 ¼ - 1 ½ cup
Instant Yeast	½ tsp
Oil for brushing	As required

Procedure:

1. Add hot water and sugar in a bowl. Mix them well till the sugar dissolves completely.

2. Add rice flour, maida and yeast in a wide bowl. Mix them well.

3. Add sugar water ( from 1) little by little and mix them well without lumps with whisk.

4. Adjust the water level and make the batter little bit thicker than idli batter consistency.

5. Close the lid of the bowl and keep it aside for 2-3 hrs for fermentation.

6. After fermentation, the batter becomes double in its size. Mix them gently and keep it aside.

7. Grease the cup cake bowls or small bowls with oil. Pour the batter till ¾ of the bowl and steam cook them for 15- 17 mins or till the inserted tooth pick comes out clean.

Note:

1. I have used instant yeast.

2.  You can also use dry yeast. Be sure to mix the yeast in ¼ cup of warm water for 15 mins and then use.

3. Adjust the sugar level according to your taste.

4. You can use odorless oil for greasing.

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Persian Rice Cookie (Nan e Berenji) / Gluten Free Cookies | Easy Cookies Recipe

Even though healthy cookies are typically whole wheat without maida, wheat also has gluten. Today many people was even gluten free and there is good demand for gluten free cookies. Our own rice is gluten free. In Persia, there is a rice cookie made from rice flour. I immediately tried it and it came out really well. Try this cookie for sure.

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Recipe Cuisine : International / Persian | Recipe Category: Baking | Source : Saveur

Preparation Time: 15 mins  | Cooking Time: 12 mins | Yields: 15 cookies

Ingredients:

Rice Flour	1 cup (1 cup = 240 ml)
Butter	½ cup
Oil (odorless)	3 tbsp
Cardamom Powder or essence	¼ tsp
For Sugar Syrup:
Sugar	¾ cup
Water	¼ cup
Rose Essence	½ tsp
For Garnish:
Poppy Seeds	1 tbsp

 Procedure:

Sugar Syrup:

1. In a pan, add ¾ cup sugar and ¼ cup water. Heat the mixture till the sugar dissolves completely. Don’t  oven boil and make it thick mixture.

2. Switch off the flame, add rose essence and allow it to cool down. Keep it aside.

Cookie:

3.  In a wide bowl, add butter and beat the butter till it reach fluffy using the whisk or electric beater.

4. Add rice flour, oil and cardamom powder or essence with butter mixture. Mix them well.

5. Add sugar syrup (from 2) with this rice flour-butter mixture. Then knead them into a soft and pliable dough.

6. Wrap the dough with plastic sheet and keep it in the refrigerator for 30 mins.

7. After 30 mins, roll the dough into ¼ inch thickness sheet using the rolling pin. (Dust the rolling surface with rice flour).

8. Cut the sheet with round cookie cutter or bottle cap (2 inch diameter).

9. Make flower patter using the knife (see the picture) or just press with fork.

10. Place a pinch of poppy seeds at the center of the cookie and press them gently.

11. Arrange the cookies on the ungreased baking tray. Leave ½ inch gap between them.

12. Preheat the oven for 200 degree Celsius.

13. Bake the cookies for 13 mins at 140 degree Celsius.

14. Allow them to cool down completely on the tray itself.

15. Then take them out from the tray and serve.

       Really yummy, delicious and gluten free cookies are ready!

Note:

1. You can use either homemade rice flour (Recipe HERE) or store bought rice flour.

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Besan Flour / Kadalai Maavu Murukku

       Most people use roasted gram flour or moong dal flour for preparing murukku. But in our villages besan flour is also used. The difference is that besan murukku is more aromatic and preparation is also very easy because besan flour is readily available.

Recipe Cuisine : South Indian | Recipe Category: Snacks

Preparation Time: 5 mins | Cooking Time: 15 mins | Yields: 15 (medium size)

Ingredients:

Rice Flour	½ cup
Besan Flour/ Kadalai Maavu	¼ cup
Butter	½ tbsp
Red Chilli Powder (click here for homemade red chilli powder recipe)	1 tsp
Sesame Seeds	1 tsp
Asafoedita	¼ tsp
Salt	As Required
Oil	For Deep Fry

Procedure:

 1. Sieve besan flour, rice flour, red chilli powder, asafoedita and salt for 2 times.

2. Then add this flour in a wide bowl and add butter to this mixture. Mix them well with your fingers till it becomes like bread crumbs.

3. Now add water little by little and knead it into a soft dough.

4. Take the murukku-press and choose the design as per your wish. I used star design. (mullu murukku design).

5. Grease the murukku-press with oil, then fill the murukku-press with dough upto ¾ of the press. Press a round shape on the ladle. I used 2 ladles for quick process.

6. Heat the oil in a pan till it becomes hot or put a pinch of dough into the oil. If the dough comes up immediately, then this is the correct stage of oil heating.

7. Now flip the ladle over the oil. After a min, flip the murukku and cook till the sizzling sound reduces completely.

8. Take it out from the oil and drain them using tissue paper. Repeat this for remaining dough also. Allow it to cool down completely and store it in a air tight container.

    Tasty besan murukku is ready to serve with tea.

Note:

1. We can get 12 large size murukku for this quantity.

2. Do not reduce the flame to simmer. Leave some time gap between batches of murukku.

3. When making large number of murukkus, make the dough also in batches.

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Homemade Idiyappam Flour or Processed Rice Flour

     Processed rice flour is a very useful ingredient which is used in many recipes like Idiyappam, murukku, seedai, kozhukattai etc., This is the good procedure to make it once and reuse later whenever you want.

Recipe Cuisine : South Indian | Recipe Category: Homemade

            Preparation Time:  10 mins  | Cooking Time: 20 mins | Soaking Time : 2-3 hrs

Ingredients:

Raw Rice / Maavu Pacharisi / Pacharisi

1/2 kg

Procedure:

1. Wash and soak the rice for 3-4 hours. You should soak it for atleast 3 hrs.

2. Then drain the water completely and spread over the cotton cloth till it becomes dry. It will take 20-30 mins approximately. Please ensure that there is little bit moisture even though it has to look dry.

3. Grind them into batch wise using the mixer grinder. You should grind into a fine powder.

4. Sieve the ground flour using the siever (sallladai). So that some un- ground rice particles gets deposited at the top of the siever. Keep this in a separate plate.

5. Do this 4 the step for the remaining rice. Again do this for the un-ground rice particles.

6.  Heat the pan and dry roast the flour little by little until nice aroma comes out. You can remove when you can’t hold the flour when you press between your fingers also. You can otherwise remove if there is no moisture at all in the flour.

7.  This is the correct stage, take it out from the flame and allow it to cool down completely. Store it in an air tight container for later use.

Note:

1. If you are making in large quantities, it is better to give it out to flour mill.

2. You can keep it until 6-9 months.

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