rice flour at home recipe| how to make rice flour at a home recipe with stepwise photos and a quick video. Rice flour one the most needed ingredient especially during Indian festivals. Rice flour is used in many snacks as well as dessert recipes like modak, idiyappam, medu vada etc. here I am sharing the easiest way to make rice flour at your home.
Making flours at home is not only easy and good but it saves MONEY too 😉 Rice flour is a gluten-free flour so it is used to make some gluten-free recipes as well.
All you need to making this recipe is a good quality blender. your blender should be capable of grinding your grains. I always like to use rice flour in my snack recipes like medu vada and bhajiya because it gives crispiness to the recipe. My mom used to make rice flour dumplings for us (upcoming recipe). Dumplings are my most favorite recipe. When I shifted to pune I got to know that the famous modakam recipe is also prepared from rice flour.
To make this flour, it is mandatory to soak rice grains for 30 mins at least. You can use any variety of rice here including brown rice as well. I am using surti kolum rice variety here. after soaking you need to dry out the rice to remove excess moisture.
Once it is ready, store rice flour in an air-tight container until you are ready to use. If the flour is not stored in an air-tight container, it may become moldy. You can store it in the freezer to help prevent the formation of mold. But if it is not in an air-tight container, it will absorb moisture and odor from other items. This rice flour when stored properly have shelf life of 1 year.
So, how to make rice flour at home?important steps
soaking rice first,rinse rice in water a couple of times and then soak for
30 min to 1 hour in enough water.
after 2 to 3 hours, drain all the water.
The next step is drying the rice.Place a large clean kitchen napkin or kitchen towel on the table. spread the rice on the kitchen towel. let the rice grains dry in shade for about 30 -45 minutes.Do not dry in the sun.
then add the rice grains in a grinder jar.grind to a fine consistency.
now spread the rice flour in the plate and let it dry for some more time till its completely dry.store in a cool place and use as required.
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how to make rice flour at home recipe
EQUIPMENT
Ingredients
- 1 cup rice
- 2 cups water
other
- kitchen towel
- blender
Instructions
- soaking rice first,rinse rice in water a couple of times and then soak for30 min to 1 hour in enough water.
- after 2 to 3 hours, drain all the water.
- The next step is drying the rice.place a large clean kitchen napkin or kitchen towel on the table. spread the rice on the kitchen towel. let the rice grains dry in shade for about 30 -45 minutes.Do not dry in the sun.
- then add the rice grains in a grinder jar.grind to a fine consistency.
- now spread the rice flour in the plate and let it dry for some more time till its completely dry.store in a cool place and use as required.
Video
Notes
- It is important to grind the rice when mildly wet because if it is dry, it will not grind properly.
- As you’re using slightly wet rice, use the rice flour immediately. To store it, you need to dry out this flour on the plate before storing.
- If you are grinding in bulk give it to a mill so that the grinding is even and fine too.
- It is best to soak the rice in water for at least 1-2 hours. (sometimes depends on the rice variety, my rice took 30 to 45 min.)
- Soaking longer eases grinding and gives you softer flour.
- 1 cup rice yields 2 cups rice flour. I prefer to make fresa h batch of rice flour as and when required.
- I always prefer to store leftover rice flour in the refrigerator.
- You can use the same process to prepare brown rice flour but just increase the soaking time of rice to 3 to 4 hours.
NUTRITION
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marcie
This is such a great tutorial Priya! I've never thought to make rice flour at home!
Ruxana
Home made is the best...Good one!
Emma - Bake Then Eat
I never realised this was how you made rice flour! Great tips 😀
Yanna
What grinder did you use?
Priya
Hey, I used Preeti Indian grinder for this recipe. I have updated the reference in the "equipment" section.