Harischandra Red Rice String Hopper Flour is red rice flour ready for making string hoppers (idiyappam), the steamed nests of rice noodles eaten for breakfast and dinner across Sri Lanka. It comes in a 700g pack.
Red rice string hoppers are a pinkish brown with a fuller, nuttier taste than the white kind. Harischandra added its string hopper flours in the 1990s, and they carry the Sri Lanka Standards Institution mark for string hopper flour (SLS 913).
How to use
- Mix the flour with a little salt and enough hot water to make a soft, smooth dough.
- Press the dough through a string hopper mould onto small woven trays.
- Steam for a few minutes until cooked, and serve with kiri hodi (coconut milk gravy), dhal, pol sambol or a fish curry.
In the pack
- Ingredients: red rice flour.
- Net weight: 700g.
Storage
Keep tightly closed in a cool, dry place away from sunlight; move an opened pack to an airtight jar.
Harischandra Mills PLC of Matara, Sri Lanka, founded by C. A. Harischandra in 1943, makes the Harischandra range of foods and soaps.
