The Rice flour and Urad dal flour for Seedai, Thattai, Vella seedai (Traditional Tamil Festival Snacks) are the same. You can prepare the flour in one go. To make lovely coloured and crunchy snacks this is the best maavu (flour).
If you are grinding in a mixie, make one kg maavu. If you are grinding in a flour mill you can grind more.
Rice flour
Method
- Wash and soak the required amount of rice for 30 minutes.
- Drain well and spread on a white cloth to dry for 10 minutes.
- Grind little rice at a time a sieve to get soft flour.
- Repeat with all the rice.
- Alternatively you can grind in a flour mill.
- Lightly dry roast the flour on a low flame till the flour becomes hot and slightly yellowish. This is to remove the moisture.
- You can make this a day before and store in an air tight container.
Urad dal flour
Method
- Dry roast 2 cups urad dal till golden.
- Allow to cool and grind to a super fine powder.
- Store in an air tight container.
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I have never made any bhakshanam at home… not for any festival… years ago I made all prep for Ganesh Chaturthi as it is a very big festival on my mother’s side… as is Janmashtami. But I haven’t tried anything yet.
I must!!
Just went to amma’s house today, she’s made exactly this, 1 kg flour and kept it to dry!
I remember my mom making all kinds of things.I never bothered to help out or find out how they were made.:-)
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is it okay to use store bought rice flour in place of grinding your own rice?
[…] Uppu Seedai- Crunchy marbles Filed under: Chats and snacks., Rice varieties, Festival cooking., Authentic Iyengar Recipes, Srijayanthi, tamil culture, south indian, recipes, cooking, Festivals, vegetarian, Uncategorized — lathanarasimhan @ 5:33 am Uppu seedai is a must for Srijayanthi! This snack is some thing you can do in a leisurely way. You can mix the maavu, sit in front of the TV, watching a programme of your choice, and rolling the seedai balls on to a white cloth. Or you can listen to music while preparing these. This relaxed atmosphere will make cooking a pleasure! Use the flours prepared as per previous post. Click here for the flour recipe. […]
Very useful post latha. I always go for store bought flour. (No provision to dry and grind here)
[…] Vella seedai- Sweet marbles Filed under: Chats and snacks., Festival cooking., Srijayanthi, Rice varieties, tamil culture, Festivals, sweets, vegetarian, cooking — lathanarasimhan @ 10:34 am Vella seedai is a must for janmashtami! Quite a simple snack! Use the rice flour and urad dal flour prepared for these snacks. […]
[…] Thattai Filed under: Festival cooking., Chats and snacks., fried breads, picnic special, Srijayanthi, Rice varieties, tamil culture, Festivals, recipes, vegetarian, south indian, indian breads, food — lathanarasimhan @ 4:14 pm Thattai is another must be item for Srijayanthi! Use the flours (Rice and Urad dal) that we had already prepared for this. […]
Hi,
It was very tasty……thanks a lot
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