Rice Appalam

Ingredients :

Rice - 2 cups
Sago - 1/4 cup
Green chillies - 8
Asafoetida - 1/4 tsp
Salt - As required
Ghee - 3 tbsp

Method :

1. Grind rice and sago into a very nice powder. Grind 8 green chillies, 1/2 tsp salt and 1/4 tsp asafoetida. Add 2 cups of water to the ground paste and bring it to boil.
2. Add the ground rice flour to this and cook for 1 minute. Stir well.
3. Add 3 tsp ghee and knead the flour well so that the flour becomes very soft. Make even sized balls with this flour.
4. Grease the hand with ghee and knead the ball well until it becomes very soft. Then roll it with a roller as in poori to form a thin round shape.
5. Dip the top side of the shape in dry flour everytime you roll the flour.This will help to get the round shape easily.
6. Repeat this procedure for all the balls until all the balls are over. Spread these on a sheet of paper and dry it in the sun or under the fan.