How To Make Recipes With Rice Flour

Speaking of gluten free flours, my personal favorite is the rice flour. It is neutral, tastes delicate and also acts as an excellent ingredient to crumb coat patties, cutlets and other fried dishes. The Indian cuisine itself has a varied range of Rice Flour Recipes ranging from lovely steamed dishes and pancakes to bakes and more. If you are searching for How To Make Rice Flour, this post is going to be your best guide. Here, I’ve explained a DIY process of making this flour, which will be helpful to you.

Rice Flour is simply rice grains that have been ground to a floury texture. Before you check out this pictorial representation of How To Make Rice Flour, followed by some of my top picks of Rice Flour Recipes, read on a little know-how about this flour.

As much as it is a key choice in gluten free cooking and baking, rice flour is also a great choice when it comes to imparting a crunchy, crispy texture in fried preparations.

Soft And Fluffy Rice Puto (steamed Rice Cake)

If you thought that we Indians are the only people using this flour extensively, then you’re mistaken. It is also popularly used in countries like Korea, Vietnam, Japan, China, Turkey, Burma, Sri Lanka etc.

As far as the varieties are concerned, primarily there are 3 types of rice flour: White, Brown and Sweet or Glutinous. We mostly use the white variety in many of our recipes, sometimes brown too for healthier options.

However, short grain glutinous rice is used to prepare the sweet one, making it starchy too. Hence, it is also not the right alternative to the everyday white flour made from white rice.

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India is a land of festivals. And it is hard to imagine our festivals too without food. Since there are a lot of rules that we follow especially when it comes to food for religious fasting or festivals, rice flour is one of the main ingredients that is used to make such food.

Out of an ocean of Rice Flour Recipes, some of my top picks which may have this particular flour in combination with other flours, are South Indian Snacks of Rava Dosa, Oats Dosa, Akki Roti, Murukku.

How I can forget the sweet rice flour dumplings that we call Modak and offer it to Bhagwan Ganesh during the Ganesh Chaturthi Festival.

Homemade Kurkure Recipe With Rice Flour

So, when you are finding answers on How To Make Rice Flour especially when you are offering any food to deities, it is best to refer to this post of mine and make it at home instead of buying it from a store.

I have made this flour at home on many occasions. One of the earliest memories is making a murukku with it on Diwali.

I had learnt from one of my readers that a special type or rice called IR 20 is used in South Indian snacks. This typical rice is easily available in Tamil Nadu, but not in other parts of the country.

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Even I didn’t have it. So, I used the sona masuri rice to make this flour. If you get the IR 20 raw rice, use it. Or else you can even use any other short to medium grain rice.

As mentioned in the earlier section, different varieties of this specific flour are used in different cuisines. Here’s some more scoop on these uses of those:

1. Take the required quantity of rice you need. Rinse in water a couple of times and then soak for 2 to 3 hours in enough water. I used 1.5 cups of sona masuri rice.

Rice Flour Halwa / Rice Flour Ukkiri

3. Now, place a large clean kitchen napkin or kitchen towel on the countertop or on a table. Spread the rice on the kitchen towel.

Let the rice grains dry in shade or under the fan for about 45 minutes to 1 hour. Do not dry in the sun.

4. Let the rice grains dry completely or depending on the recipe where they will be used, they can have a faint moist touch to them.

Sweet Rice Flour Recipes

6. Grind to a fine texture or the texture that you need for the recipe you will use it for. This means you can grind to a fine floury texture or a semi-fine or coarse texture according to your needs.

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.

9. After sifting, you will see small granules of the rice grains in the sieve. You can add these back to the grinder jar, grind and sift again.

Rice Flour Crepes (gluten Free)

Or you can use this small idli rava like rice grains to make idli, dosa, upma or any recipe that calls for rice rava.

If not using in a few days, refrigerate or freeze rice flour. 1.5 cups of rice yields about 2.33 cups of rice flour.

Since today we are living in a world of gluten free foodstuffs, which have become the usual norm for many people, this specific ingredient is a great option especially when it comes to flour options. You can make your regular dishes as well as bake with it, there’s not really an end when it comes to recipes made with this flour. It is versatile that way.

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Yes, it is possible to use rice flour in place of all-purpose flour, but only partly. It is not possible to use rice flour instead of all-purpose flour completely. This will also depend from recipe to recipe.

You can use rice flour in a variety of dishes like baked good like cakes, cooked and others like crepes, pancakes, rice cakes and similar dishes in South East Asian cuisines.

In India, rice flour is used to make a variety of snacks and is also used to impart more crispiness in fried dishes.

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There is a varied list of Indian recipes with rice flour. Some of the most common regional ones are Rice Puri, Modak, Maddur Vada, Akki Roti, Murukku and Butter Murukku.

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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.

Rice Flour (gluten Free Flour)

This Rice Flour recipe post from the blog archives first published in October 2017 has been republished and updated on 27 August 2022.

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I'm sure you have already fallen for this amazingly versatile flour hook, line and sinker but if you are in a dilemma on what to do with an unfinished bag then these sweet rice flour recipes will be a great resource for you. Dinner? Birthday cake? Afternoon tea? There is a recipe here for every occasion.

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This Gluten-Free Chocolate Fudge Cake is rich with chocolate and boasts a moist and tender crumb. Finished with a luxuriously silky buttercream for the ultimate indulgence. No xanthan gum is needed for this crowd pleaser of a cake.

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