Saandan
its a konkani muslim dish
Recipe by minaz of Dubai, AE
if made sweet by adding sugar can be served with tea as a snack or else it is usually served with chicken curry.
Ingredients
vegetarian
4 servings
- 1 kg Rice
- 250 gms Semolina
- 2 Coconut milk
- salt 1/4th tspn
- sugar (optional)
- 1/2 tspn baking soda powder
Directions
- wash the rice and let it dry it for 5-6 hours.
- dry grind it to a coarse powder (coarse like semolina)
- take 100 gms of rice powder from it and cook it with more water the rice should be soft and well cooked and allow it to cool.
- grind the 2 coconuts and take the milk of it.
- mix together all the ingredients i.e. rice powder, semolina, cooked rice and coconut milk, baking powder. cover it and keep it to ferment for 10 hrs.
- after fermentation add salt to it .
- grease the idli moulds and pour the batter into it and steam for 5-9 minutes.
- you can also add sugar to the batter and make it sweet to have it with tea or for children as a side dish.