Sevai(rice noodles)

Hello,

For dinner I made rice sevai. A tiffin which need lot of manual work! But the end result is worth all the effort taken.

Sevai (Rice noodles)

Ponni rice/ Dopi rice/Idly rice - 3 cups
salt as required
Water for grinding rice
Gingelly oil - 2 tbsp

Method of Preparation

Wash and soak ponni boiled rice for about 4 to 5 hours. Drain water grind in grinder to a smooth batter adding enough water and salt. Use a rubber spatula to take batter in a vessel. In a thick bottom kadai pour gingelly oil and pour the entire batter, add water if required. Keep stirring till the batter becomes thick. Off the stove make even sized balls/kozhakattai out of the cooked batter. Steam it using either idly vessel or a steamer. Wash  clean and apply little oil in the sevai nazhi. Use tongs to take kozhakattai from the steamer and put in the sevai nazhi, Press it immediately and spread the sevai into a flat plate. Do the same till all the steamed kozhakattai is over. 

In a heated pan pout gingelly oil add mustard seeds let it pop up, now add urad dal and chana dal and two red dry chillies.  Use a clean scissor to cut the sevai into small pieces and put in the kadai and mix well. Serve with coconut chutney/ sambhar/morukuttan

Variation

When you make the tadka add 1/2 tsp turmeric and put the sevai in it.Finally garnish with chopped coriander leaves and 2 tbsp lemon juice. Its lemon sevai

When you make tadka add 1/2 cup of grated coconut and roast till golden brown and put sevai into it. It become coconut sevai!

Add few chopped vegetables and you can make vegetables sevai too. 

You can make sevai for breakfast or for dinner. I am sure your kids will love the whole process of making sevai, I remember how my children used to help me making sevai when they where very young! Its fun filled family activity.