NAWAB RICE FLOUR 500G

Description

Nawab Rice Flour 500G is raw rice ground to a fine, soft powder. It runs through the fingers rather than gritting between them, which is the quickest way to tell it apart from the coarse rice ravas sold on the same shelf.

It does the jobs wheat flour cannot. Steamed kozhukattai and modak shells, the dough for chakli and murukku, neer dosa batter, a spoonful stirred into a curry to thicken it, and a dusting on the board when a dough is sticky. Half a kilo is the sensible pack for a household that reaches for it a few times a month.

Is rice flour the same as idly rava? No, and swapping them will not work. Rice flour is fine and powdery. Idly rava is coarse rice grit that soaks up water and gives idli its texture. A batter made with flour instead of rava comes out flat and pasty.

Can I use it to thicken a gravy? Yes, and it holds better than wheat flour in something that will be reheated. Mix a spoon of it with cold water first, then stir it in, because dropping dry flour into hot gravy makes lumps that never come out.

The same flour in a bigger pack, Nawab rice flour in a 1 kilo bag, costs less per kilo, and the rest of the flour aisle carries the attas, ravas and besan. Vegetarian. Store it in a cool, dry place in a sealed container, because flour takes up damp and picks up the smell of whatever sits beside it. Order online at Panjab Supermarket for same-day delivery across Nieuwegein, Utrecht, Leidsche Rijn, Vleuten, Maarssen, Zeist, Bunnik, IJsselstein, Vianen, and Culemborg. Free delivery on orders over 49 euros.