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| ]Sevai is often flavoured with Lemon, ], Tomato, Coconut,curd etc. and |
]Sevai is often flavoured with Lemon, ], Tomato, Coconut,curd etc. and is usually eaten warm. Popular accompaniments for plain sevai are ] ], banana sugar and ghee, more-kuzhambu, several ]s and mutton/chicken/fish ]. | ||
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Sevai or Santhakai is a type of rice noodles popular in Southern India, particularly Tamil Nadu (Kongunadu region) and Karnataka. Santhakai is made out of other food grains like wheat, ragi, etc. also are increasingly becoming popular.
Sevai/Santhakai is distinctly different from its cousin idiappam in the sense of input material, making process, and post-extrusion recipes. Sevai is popular as a breakfast/dinner food and is considered easily digestible as it can be made with less or no oil, and it is steamed.
Making of Sevai
Sevai/Santhakai is mostly made fresh starting from rice grains. It is also prepared from a dried Sevai packs (or rice sticks) like the instant ones in the Asian grocery stores. Traditionally, making of sevai at home consists of the following steps (with minor variations based on location and family customs):
- Soaking of parboiled rice in cold water for about 3 hours
- Grinding of soaked rice using a wet grinder into a fine paste
- Making of dumplings from the rice paste and steaming the chunks (at least three variations are known in this step as follows)
- Pressing of cooked dumplings into fine strands using a type of Sevai press
Composition of Sevai
Home made Sevai is often made from 100% rice (with water and salt, of course) whereas dry rice sticks may often have some additives like tapioca, corn starch, etc.
Instant rice noodles have other additives like Wheat gluten, Guar gum, edible starch, etc.
Other names of Sevai
Sevai is called Santhakai in the western parts of Tamil Nadu. it is called 'Shavige' in Kannada. People also loosely use the terms idiappam and semiya (vermicelli) for Sevai, even though these foods are different from Sevai in several aspects. In Tamil, these are written சந்தகை, சந்தவம், சந்தவை.
Foods prepared with Sevai
Sevai is often flavoured with Lemon, Tamarind, Tomato, Coconut,curd etc. and is usually eaten warm. Popular accompaniments for plain sevai are sweetened coconut milk, banana sugar and ghee, more-kuzhambu, several vegetable kormas and mutton/chicken/fish korma.
Sevai Press
Here are some of the types of sevai presses
- Traditional Iron Sevai Maker Traditional Iron Sevai Maker
