Prepare rice flour at home any time you need it to make various snacks or sweets. Making homemade rice flour is not difficult and all you need is a good mixer-grinder or blender or a grain mill to grind the rice grains.

Recipe Snapshot

  • Prep time: 140 minutes
  • Cook time: Not specified
  • Total time: 140 minutes
  • Yield: 285 · 285 grams rice flour
  • Category: Snacks
  • Cuisine: Indian, World

Ingredients

  • 1.5 cups rice (- 285 grams or as required in small to medium quantities)
  • water (as required)

Method

Soaking rice

  1. Take the required quantity of rice you will need. Rinse in water a couple of times.
  2. Soak rice for 2 to 3 hours in enough water.
  3. After 2 to 3 hours, drain all the water from the soaked rice grains.

Drying rice

  1. Now place a large clean kitchen napkin or kitchen towel on the countertop or on a table.
  2. Spread the rice on the kitchen towel. Let the rice grains dry in shade for about about 45 minutes to 1 hour. Do not dry in the sun.
  3. Depending on the type of snacks you are making, you can completely dry the rice grains or let them have a faint moist touch.

Making rice flour

  1. Then add the rice grains in a mixer-grinder jar or a sturdy blender. For larger quantities of rice, use a grain mill.
  2. Grind to a texture you prefer - it can be fine, semi-fine or coarse. The texture of the rice flour will depend on the recipe you will be using.I ground rice grains in one batch. But if you use more cups of rice, then you will have to grind in 2 to 3 batches and for more quantities, grind in a mill.
  3. Take the rice flour in a fine sieve and then sift it.
  4. After sieving you will see small granules of rice grains in the sieve. You can add these back to the grinder jar and then grind again and sift again. Or you can use these small idli rava like rice grains to make idli or dosa or any recipe that calls for rice rava.
  5. Now spread the rice flour in the plate and let it dry for some more time till its completely dry.
  6. Then spoon the rice flour in an air-tight container. Store in a cool place and use as required.
  7. If the recipe calls for roasting the rice flour, then you can roast till you see some steam coming from it. If not using in a few days, then you can refrigerate or freeze rice flour. From 1.5 cups of rice, I got 2.33 cups rice flour.

Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note

Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.