Homemade Maida
Homemade Maida is a handy ingredient for making flatbreads, snacks and sweets. Homemade Maida is healthier than the packed store bought maida however takes effort and time. Maida is made by extracting wheat milk, sun drying it and grinding to a fine powder.
Servings400 grams
Ingredients
- 500 gms broken wheat*
- around 750 ml water roughly + you may need more while grinding and extracting 2nd and 3rd milk.
* You can use whole wheat or broken wheat or broken wheat rava or wheat flour(chapathi flour).
Instructions
- Soak broken wheat in water for at least 2-3 hours. I used broken wheat. You can use whole wheat or broken wheat or broken wheat rava or wheat flour (chapathi flour). Do not use UPMA RAVA. Water level you can add it roughly so its ok even its more but make sure water is at least 1 inch above broken wheat.
- Now transfer it to a mixer and grind it.
- Extract milk by transferring it to a fine strainer. I had to do it in batches. Press it well with a spoon and extract milk.
- Now again extract milk by adding more water. I did it thrice in total. First milk will be thick then the successive extracted milk will be slightly runny.
- Transfer to a large mixing bowl. I had got 2 such mixing bowls full of extracted milk.
- Keep undisturbed for an hour. You can see clear water floating on top.
- Slowly drain the clear water alone. Then you will be left out with only thick milk. I got 2 bowls so strained both separately.
- Now pour the thick milk to a flat bottomed wide tray. Let it dry under the sun for at least 2-3 days until it becomes dry completely and starts to show splits.
- Keep covered with a netted cloth or you can use your dupatta too, this way we can avoid flies and dust. I broke them roughly. It took me just 2 days to dry as its summer.
- Transfer to a mixer jar and powder it finely. I used my small mixer jar to powder it finely so had to do in batches.
- Sieve it using a fine sieve. Cool down then store. Store Homemade Maida in clean dry airtight container.
Notes
- Try this when you have good amount of sunlight. If the milk is not dried properly it will give bad smell.
- I used mixie as I found it convenient. But as per the original source you can even use hand blender that's mainly if you use broken wheat rava which is very fine.
- When you are trying try with 250gms then you can do in bulk.
- Make sure the resting time doesn't exceed much than the mentioned time else it will give a sour taste.
Nutrition Facts
Homemade Maida
Amount Per Serving (175 g)
Calories 833
Calories from Fat 27
% Daily Value*
Fat 3g5%
Sodium 19mg1%
Carbohydrates 178g59%
Fiber 33g138%
Protein 33g66%
Calcium 122mg12%
Iron 8mg44%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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