Sannas

Total Time: 6 hrs 40 mins Preparation Time: 6 hrs Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 2 cups boiled rice
• 2 cups raw rice
• 3/4 cup split lentils (urad)
• 1 tablespoon dry yeast or 1/2 bottle toddy
• 3 tablespoons sugar (or to taste)
• 1 cup coconut milk
• salt

Recipe

• 1 wash and soak each of the each kind of rice and the lentils overnight or for 8 hours, separately.
• 2 then grind all the three together to a fine paste with the coconut milk.
• 3 put the dry yeast in a bowl with sugar and 3 tablespoons warm water.
• 4 when it froths, add it to the ground batter.
• 5 add salt to taste and keep aside for 5 hours till it doubles in quantity.
• 6 get the steaming vessel ready on medium flame with the required amount of water in it.
• 7 put a tablespoonful of the batter into each of the moulds/ aluminuim bowls and steam on medium heat till the sannas are fluffy and done right through (around 15 mins) or when a skewer pierced into one comes out clean.
• 8 all of them may not go into the steamer in one round so do them in batches.