Homemade rice flour for Indian snacks like murukku, seedai and other snacks. Learn how to make rice flour at home with full video, detailed step by step photos.
Ever since I started cooking and started attempting making snacks, I used idiyappam flour. Many of you must be knowing this if you are following my posts from beginning. It's because raw rice was not available those days in Mustafa. I was not sure about little India, but I visit only Mustafa those days. So it was just basmati and ponni parboiled rice.
Idiyappam flour (Baba brand) was a saviour for me as everything turned out perfect with it. It was good in quality, finest ground flour as well. Be it thenkuzhal, or kozhukattai, everything was turning out too good with it. Then why bother about homemade rice flour?
Prepare snacks with homemade rice flour
Years passed and all of a sudden craved for Kai murukku and seedai. Will I spare both from trying with idiyappam flour? No, I did try but in vain. So it became a compulsion for me to make fresh homemade rice flour. I made it for first time and both seedai and kai murukku turned out perfect with the prepared rice flour at home.
Later I started making many snacks using fresh flour like achu murukku etc. Every year I make for Gokulashtami, but I am always in hurry (or I never wanted to make it complicated on the festival day). Roughly managed sometime back and have it as a page in my site.
Are videos more your thing?
Check out my short video on how to make rice flour at home
Today also I made for Karadaiyan nombu adai and suddenly thought I will have a separate post with video for this.
Which rice is best for making flour?
I get Sona masuri and find it good for making flour. I have not much options. In South Indian small local shops, you can ask for maavu arisi, which is apparently rich in starch and perfect for making rice flour.
Before you ask, no Basmati rice wont be good for this. I have not tried any other rice variety when it comes to homemade rice flour. If you have any other good suggestions for people abroad (for those who don't have access to maavu arisi) please leave your suggestions in comments section.
Below is by roasting method. But for bulk options, you can give it to mill after drying the rice (step 5).
Also if you are in a sunny region, instead of roasting, you can spread and dry in shade (by covering with another cloth over the flour) for 3 days.
Video:
Yeilds 1 cup rice flour
How to make rice flour at home for Indian snacks
Time needed: 3 hours
Learn how to make homemade rice flour for snacks like murukku, seedai, kozhukattai and others.
- Clean
Wash the rice well 2-3 times in water. I took 1 cup of raw rice (Sona masuri)
- Soak
Add enough water and soak for 2 hours.
- Drain
Once done, drain water completely using a metal strainer.
- Spread
In a clean kitchen towel or cotton cloth preferably white, spread the soaked rice.
- Dry
Set aside for 15 minutes minimum.
- Grind
Place the rice in a mixer
- Powder
Grind to a fine powder
- Sieve
Place the flour in a sieve and get rid of the unground rice. Y
- Rice rava
You can add it to the next batch and powder again.
- Roast
Dry roast in medium flame without changing it's colour. Only until steam rises.
- Check
It should be free flowing, able to draw a line if you try.
- Cool
Cool down by spreading in a wide plate.
- Sieve again
Again sieve to get rid of small lumps.
- Ready
Use it in any snack, as needed. Store in an air tight container and use upto a month.
Make sure no moisture is there in the rice flour, especially if you are storing for later.
I have not stored this homemade rice flour before, but if the quality of the rice is good and properly dried before storing, it should stay good for about a month fresh. My mom passes me a lot of flour for my use though different method. It turns out to be good. Depending on the quality of rice, the shelf life varies.
Athi
Hello Raji,
Whether the same flour can be used for making puttu and idiyappam?
Raks Anand
For puttu, slightly coarse ground will work better. Idiyappam yes you can.
Rajani
Which mixer grinder do u use for grinding flours like ragi, jowar, etc
Raks Anand
I have not prepared on my own, I buy store bought ones so far. My mom has been using Panasonic for years. It's good.
latha
Could you let me know brand for maavu arisi? I have been searching for same in little india shops too and couldnt find one
Raks Anand
I have not found here, I just use Sona masuri.
Blanche
Hi, I soak rice and dry in sun and then send to mill, but in many recipes I find that rice is to be dried in shade. Which is better ? Dry in sun and send to mill or dry in shade and send to mill?
Raks Anand
I would suggest to dry rice in shade and then if you want dry the flour in sun for longer shelf life. Do not dry rice in sun as it doesnt serve the purpose. Wet rice gets ground well in mill.