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Yaji

Steam Cooked Rice-Flour Cake
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Course: Breakfast
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients Equipment Method

Ingredients
  

  • 1 kg Rice Flour
  • 2 tsp Salt
  • 1 tsp Caraway Seeds
  • ½ tsp Ginger Powder
  • ½ tsp Kashmiri Red Chili Powder
  • ½ cup Mustard Oil
  • pinch Hing (Asafoetida)
  • 2 Cloves
  • 5 Walnuts broken into pieces

Equipment

  • 1 Pressure Cooker for Steaming

Method
 

  1. Knead the Rice flour with enough water into a stiff dough adding 1 tsp of salt, caraway seeds and the broken walnuts
  2. Divide the dough into 15 portions and roll each one into a ball
  3. Press each ball, with fingers and thumbs, into the shape of a semi-spherical bowl, about 3" diameter and of uniform thickness of about 1".
  4. place the Yaji's in a wok inverted and cook for 5 minutes
  5. Turn the Yaji's to cook on all sides
  6. Add oil to the wok and then cover with a lid and cook for 5 minutes