How to make rice flour at home (Homemade Rice Flour)
Homemade rice flour is very handy for making indian snacks and also for festive special recipes. So thought to have a record of the ingredients and method here.

Homemade Rice flour Recipe
Ingredients:
- Raw Rice - 2 cups
If you are grinding in bulk give it to a mill so that the grinding is even and fine too. I grinded it at home using a normal mixie so had to grind it for more time in batches.
You can use the homemade rice flour for making :
Method :
First rinse the raw rice twice, and soak it in water for 1 hour. Drain water completely and then spread the raw rice in a soft towel and allow it to dry completely.
Then heat a tawa and dry roast the dried raw rice - this is to ensure that the moisture is completely gone. Grind it to a fine powder in a mixie in batches.
Add the remaining coarse powder to grind in next batch, grind it again and then sieve it. The powder should be very fine. You can even dry roast it for few mins before storing or roast it as and when needed when using it for snacks.

Cool down completely and store in a airtight container. Homemade rice flour works well for all indian snacks and festive recipes.
My Notes :
You can dry roast the rice flour before using it for snacks as amma says roasting it as that instant is more effective than roasting and storing it.

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I fry after it is ground...v.useful post
very nice step by step instructions .... thanks for sharing sharmilee ....
I always want to make rice flour...thanks for sharing it.
Very useful powder. Thanx for sharing.
Nice how to. It should be useful for sure.
Cheers,
Uma
nice post...thanks for sharing..
I had no idea this could be done at home! Great idea. This is my first visit to your blog, so I took a bit of extra time to browse through your earlier posts. I'm so glad I did that. I really like the food and recipes you share with your readers and I'll definitely be back. I hope you have a great weekend. Blessings...Mary
Very useful post :) We used to soak, dry and give it to the machine and grind it. It will last for 3 to 4 months for us :) Will do your method when I need small quantity urgently :)
Very nice post sharmi. Lovely pictures too.
Sharmi .. you know what. I made this powder at home for seedai and oh boy it was a pain to powder it in batches and in spite of sieving it twice I still ended up with some rava in the powder. So I have decided to carry it from India at least for making seedai :)
Vardhini
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@Vardhini : It is always bset to give and grind it in mill but for small batches I do at home but if you grind it repeatedly and then sieve, the flour will be fine but as you say it is a pain :)
Nice post. I usually make this way for occasions :)
nice post.. I usually grind it bulk in mill and carry it here .. u have enough patience to make this at home.. great..
hi sharmilee, my first time here.
also first i come across a topic oh how to make rice flour at home.
also,i think you are the only one who publish such a useful recipe.. thanks, knowledge is precious.
do visit my blog when you are free, would love to read a comment from you too. have a nice day
Good post Sharmi..very useful :)
Very helpful post...Will bookmark it...
Sharmi u have lot of patience for doing all this.. very useful and perfect one...
Wow..It is very true steps to make rice flour from the scratch....Thank u for sharing it with readers..
A very handy recipe for this coming diwali!!! Very well explained....
Prathima Rao
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very nice and useful post :)
Love your website. Could you use brown rice for this?
Googled about this & landed here! Have washed rice and it's soaking now.
I have a question: Srivalli's post says to soak 15-20 mins & yours says to soak 1 hour.
Does it mean soaking 20 mins or 60 mins makes no difference to the end result?
I asked amma and she said soaking for more time will make the rice softer and makes it ground easier.I am really not sure whether soaking for 20 mins will also give the same result. Hope this helps!
Thanks for the quick reply, Sharmi! Good I left it for an hour, now grinding won't be a pain in the neck :D
Thank you so much for sharing how to do this!
can this poweder be used as rice cereal for babies?
@Anon : You can steam it and use it as its raw powder....
I prepared de fluor first i cook the rice as cooking rice normaly, after i dry the rice in a pain in the oven. When the rice is dried, is very easy to mill it in my grindr and the rice powder is very soft, is cooking and it mix very fast with other ingredients in the recipes.
Jaime gaviria, colombia
Can you make teokkboki (korean snack) from this?
@Anon : I am not familiar with the snack but while googling saw that it involves rice cake, so am not sure whether we can use this recipe. Sorry cudnt help u in this regard.
Thanks for this great recipe. I made this but used a high quality food processor instead of a mixie, and added a little cornstarch.. came out perfect.
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