String Hoppers (Indi Appa)
- 3 cups roasted rice flour –roasted (flour should be fine & free flowing without clumps).
- 2 – 3 cups boiling water
- Salt to taste
If you are using the instant string
hoppers flour carry out the instructions properly in it.
Method
- Take dry bowl and add the flour and salt. Mix it well
- Slowly add the boiling water to rice flour until you can form a dough that does not stick to the bowl (if you want to get light fluffy string hoppers there should be the right consistency)
- Fill the string hopper mold with dough and squeeze it to the string hoppers watties to form lacy circles.
- Boil the water in steamer
- Pile the string hopper watties on top of each other and steam for 8 – 10minutes until it done
- Repeat the process until you finish the dough
- Serve the String hoppers with Kirri Hodi, Lunu Miris or Seeni Sambol, Malu Ambulthial or Meat curry.
- Apply oil lightly on the surface of string hoppers wattie resulting to remove them easily