Arisi Koozh Vadam

          Arisi Koozh Vadam                                                                                    Ingredients

• Rice flour – 2 cup
• Green chilli – 4 to 6 no
• Lemon juice – ½ cup approximately
• Asafetida powder – ½ tsp
• Water – 6 cups
• Salt – as per taste                                                                    
• • Method

    1. Previous day evening, put the rice flour in a big vessel and add sufficient water to make it like a thick dosa batter. Keep it over night for fermentation. Next day, early morning add more water and make it a thin batter.
    2. Grind green chillies to a fine paste and add to the rice batter. Add salt and asafetida powder and mix well.
    3. Keep a thick bottomed broad vessel on the stove. Add 6 cups water and bring to boil. When it starts boiling, reduce the heat to low and slowly add the rice batter continuously stirring. (You can take a help of another for pouring or stirring). Cook on low flame stirring continuously till it thickens. Taste for the salt and if you require more add it and mix it well. Remove and cool it.
    4. Spread a clean thick plastic sheet in a place where you get sunlight (mostly terrace or backyard). Using Murukku Press with “one star hole” plate, put the koozh dough into the press and make long straight lines. Finish all the dough.
    5. Allow to dry in the hot sun for the whole day. In the evening, you can easily gather the dried vadams. You can break it into desired length. If it is not fully dried, then next day also dry it in the sun. Store it in a container.