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Rice and Khus /Poppy seed cake

As promised another rice flour recipe. This one is simple and delicious.

Ingredients

1 cup rice flour
1/2 cup mawa
1/2 cup khus-khus / poppy seed
1/2 cup ghee
2 cups sugar
Saffron / cardomom/ nuts (optional)

Roast the flour in a tablespoon of  ghee. Mix in the mawa and set aside. Heat the sugar and cook till it becomes a syrup  and gets a string like consistency.
Grind the coconut and poppy seed into a fine paste in a blender or a coffee grinder. Add the rice flour mixture and the coconut and khus paste to the sugar syrup. Add the rest of the ghee.  Keep cooking on a low flame till the mixture leaves the sides of the pan.
Spread on a greased plate or cake tin and garnish with nuts.
When cool cut and serve.

Almost Instant Savoury Rice pudding - Gluten Free

Ingredients

1 cup rice flour
1 cup sour yogurt/ curds/ dahi
1 1/2- 2 cups water
3/4  tsp salt

1 tbsp sesame / til oil
1 tsp split black lentils / urad dal
1 tsp mustard seeds / rai
20 curry leaves / kari patta

2 green chillies, chopped fine
1 cup green coriander/ hara dhaniya chopped
1 " piece of ginger, grated
 
1 tablespoon fresh grated coconut
1 tablespoon grated carrot

Mix the water and dahi. Add salt. Soak the rice flour in the mixture.
Heat a kadhai and add the oil.  When hot add the mustard seeds and urad dal. Let the seeds sputter and the urad dal become sligthly yellow in colour before adding the green chillies, the curry leaves and grated ginger. Stir well and then pour in the rice mixture. Keep stirring vigorously so that the flour does not stick to the sides of the kadhai. Add  a tablepoon of the green coriander
Keep stirring and cook for 8- 10 minutes till most of the liquid has evaporated..
Decorate with the grated coconut,carrot and green coriander.
Serve hot.

Rice Flour Roti, Rice Chapati, Gluten Free chapati

In the next few months I will be posting a  couple of rice flour recipes a week. Rice,  for me, is something that is gentle on the stomach and is far more digestable than other grains, while being, best of all, gluten free. For those who love chapati's but can't stand the gluten here is one great recipe.

Ingredients

2 cups rice flour
1 cup grated coconut
1 big onion chopped fine
1 green chilli, finely chopped
1/2 cup fresh green coriander/ hara dhaniya
1/4  " fresh ginger, chopped very fine
1/2 tsp Salt
A pinch of asafoetida/ hing
1 tsp cumin powder/jeera
6 tsps vegetable oil

Mix all the ingredients together and make a soft dough by adding water bit by bit or beaten  yogurt /curds. If you are using commercially made yogurt make it a bit thinner by adding water.

Divide the dough into 6 equal parts.

Heat a non stick frying pan on a medium fire. Pour a little oil into the pan. Now press out one portion of the dough into a round shape with your fingers on the pan itself.  Tt circle  be about a 1/4 " thick.
Cover the pan and cook for 5 minutes.
Serve hot with ghee , butter, chutney or tomato sauce.

Makes 6 rotis.