Rice Noodles/ String Hoppers/Santhagai
Rice Noodles/ String Hoppers/Santhagai

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, rice noodles/ string hoppers/santhagai. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Rice Noodles/ String Hoppers/Santhagai is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Rice Noodles/ String Hoppers/Santhagai is something which I have loved my entire life.

Grease the sandhagai mould with oil and fill the mould with the cooked rice flour mixture. Press it in the Idli plates. Serve hot the sandhagai with sweet coconut milk or can also make lemon and tomato sandhagai. Authentic video recipe filmed in a Sri Lankan village.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have rice noodles/ string hoppers/santhagai using 4 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Rice Noodles/ String Hoppers/Santhagai:
  1. Make ready 2 cups idli rice
  2. Prepare as required Salt
  3. Get as required Water
  4. Take String Hopper Maker

It is too tasty and healthy too, as it is a steamed food These thin, laced crepes are made of rice flour which is briefly cooked in boiling water and then kneaded and pressed through a fine 'Idiyappam' or Noodle maker. Idiyappam, a rice noodles also known as nool puttu or string hoppers originated from south indian states of Tamilandu & Kerala. It's quite famous in Srilanka also. It's one of my all time favorite breakfast and grew up eating on every sunday!!!

Instructions to make Rice Noodles/ String Hoppers/Santhagai:
  1. Soak the rice for 2 hours. And grind it grinder till it forms a smooth dough like idli batter consistency.
  2. Place a saute pan in the stove. Switch on the flame. Keep in medium flame. Add oil when it gets heat, add the ground dough.
  3. Add salt and mix the dough continuously until water gets dry and becomes thick so that we can make a small balls out of it.
  4. Place an idli maker in the stove. Switch on the flame. Make a small balls from that batter. And place it in the idli plates. And let it cook for 15mins.
  5. After that using santhagai/ string hopper maker, place the cooked balls inside the container and screw it on top by placing a bowl like vessel below the container to collect noodles. Make the noodles quick when the balls are hot so that it will be easy to screw.
  6. Rice noodles is ready. You can also add sugar or jaggery powder or brown sugar and ghee, mix it to the noodles while serving.

It's quite famous in Srilanka also. It's one of my all time favorite breakfast and grew up eating on every sunday!!! Idiyappam with mutton kulambu was our sunday's breakfast most of the time back then. Another commonly found version is the green colored one that is prepared with pandan leaves (screwpine) extract. Putu piring is a Malaysian version in which the rice flour dough is used to make a small cake filled with coconut and gur or jaggery.

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