Rice bread - Kai Pathiri

INGREDIENTS:

Roasted rice flour - 1 cup
Scrapped coconut - 1/2 cup
Small onions (shallots) - 3 (finely chopped)
Salt - as per taste


METHOD OF PREPARATION:

• In a bowl pour 1 cup water to the scrapped coconut and chopped shallots.
• Squeeze out the coconut milk and sieve out the coconut and shallot mix.
• Keep a pan on the flame, pour 1 cup water and add  the squeezed coconut with salt.
• On boiling add the roasted rice flour and stir to make a dough. Knead it well to make balls of even size.
• On a banana leaf greased with coconut oil, place a ball and lightly press it with hands to make discs.
• Heat a tawa and cook the pathiris turning both sides.
• These pathiris are to be lightly soaked with the extracted coconut milk while eating.