Akki Shavige/Otthu Shavige /Rice noodles is prepared using rice,salt and water.You can also add coconut, but this recipe is without coconut. This is a breakfast recipe very popular in South Karnataka. Mangaloreans eat this with raw mango pickle and coconut oil. You can also have this with sambar, spicy curries and sweet coconut milk.
Ingredients
Ingredients
2 cups Sona Masoori rice
Salt to taste
Rice noodles press / Chakli press
Procedure
Soak rice in water for 3-4 hours. After soaking wash it well and drain all the water.
Grind the rice into a smooth batter using as much water as needed.
We need the batter watery to medium thick. Not too watery, not too thick. The consistency of the batter should be a little thicker than the neer dosa batter.
The softness, the texture of shavige totally depends on the amount of water you add.
The more water you add to the batter, the softer noodles you get. If the batter is too watery then you get soft, sticky shavige. If the batter is too thick then you end up having very dry shavige.
Transfer the ground batter into a large wok, add salt and mix well. Check and adjust the salt.
Set the flame to medium and cook the batter. As the batter cooks it starts to thicken and solidify.
Stir the batter continuously once it starts to solidify, to ensure it cooks uniformly.
If not the batter will stick to the bottom of the wok.
Cook the batter until it is cooked through completely and uniformly. The colour of the batter slightly changes.
Make balls of the cooked batter and steam it in a steamer for 20 minutes. This process ensures the batter cooks through completely.
Once you put off the flame of the steamer, immediately press it into noodles. If not the steamed rice balls tend to harden a little as they cool and it gets difficult to press them.
Use a traditional pressing machine or Chakli/ murukku press to press the noodles.
Serve the hot shavige with any curry, sambar, pickle and coconut oil or coconut sweet milk.
To make coconut milk, grind one cup of coconut with water and extract the thick coconut milk, add jaggery as per your taste and cardamom powder.
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