Wishing everyone a happy New Year! To start the Year on a sweet note, today’s recipe is that of steamed rice cakes.
Steamed rice cake
Time taken: 30 mins + 2 hours (for soaking)
Makes 6 cakes
Ingredients:
- Rice – ½ cup
- Urad dhal/ black gram flour – 2 tbsp, roasted
- Coconut – 2 tbsp, freshly scraped
- Sugar – 1 ½ tbsp
- Baking powder – 1 tsp
- Salt – pinch
- Food colouring/ essence – optional
Method:
- Soak the rice in water for about 2 hours and then grind it to make a batter.
- Add the roasted urad dhal flour, scraped coconut, sugar, baking powder and salt to the batter. Mix well.
- If you would like your steamed cakes in different colours, divide the batter into separate bowls. Add the different food colours to each of the bowl. Here, my mother used green and red.
- Steam the batter for about 10 – 15 mins.
- Serve warm with tea. You could serve some honey or jam on the side, should you like it more sweeter.
Recipe source: Raji Thillainathan.
A Taste of Sri Lankan cuisine 
Sounds like a special sweet and tasty treat… 🙂
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to you too, Ronit!
Looks delicious!
Ahila! Look at these! Pretty AND delicious looking. Wow.
They are, aren’t they? 🙂 My mother was initially planning to make some stuffed steamed rice cakes with a coconut and jaggery filling but later opted out as she was busy. I think that would make it more tasty.
Maybe another time? Because I don’t know what coconut and jaggery filling is or looks like! I’d love to see!
Sure, Susan. Next time my mother makes stuffed steamed rice cakes, I will share the photo and recipe for the filling as well.
They look beautiful 🙂
Thank you, Amal 🙂
My pleasure 🙂