SEMIGAI PENI
| Ingredients | |
|---|---|
| Semolina/broken wheat | -<br>½ padi |
| Salt | -<br>1/8 palam |
| Ghee | -<br>8 palam |
| Rice flour | -<br>¼ palam |
| Ghee for frying | -<br>12 palam |
Pour water and knead tightly semolina ½ padi and soak it for one hour. Mix both pure water 1/8 padi and salt 1/8 palam and dissolve it. Sprinkle this water on the semolina and pound it in the stone pounder and beat it well until it is soft. Make 20 equal balls out of it.
Add unmelted ghee 8 palam, finely ground rice flour ¼ palam in a coated vessel, press it in the palm of your hand in circular motion until it becomes smooth. Take the balls and extend it to make thin wire. Apply ghee on it. Take a tray and put all the wires in it. Close this with a banana leaf. Boil ghee 12 palam slightly in medium fire. Put the wires in the ghee. Take the stick and spread the wires evenly in the pan. The semolina wires will be slightly brown. Repeat this for the rest of the wires also.