Rice flour

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Rice flour (also rice powder) is a form of

When made with brown rice with only the inedible outer hull removed, it is called brown rice flour (Chinese: 糙米粉; pinyin: cāomǐ fěn, Korean: 현미가루, romanized: hyeonmi-garu). Flour made from black, red, and green rice are each called as black rice flour (Korean: 흑미가루, romanized: heungmi-garu), red rice flour (Korean: 홍미가루, romanized: hongmi-garu), green rice flour (Korean: 녹미가루, romanized: nongmi-garu). In comparison to brown rice flour, white rice flour (Chinese: 白米粉; pinyin: báimǐ fěn, Korean: 백미가루, romanized: baengmi-garu) can be specified as so.

By milling methods

Different milling methods also produce different types of rice flour. Rice flour can be dry-milled from dry rice grains, or wet-milled from rice grains that were soaked in water prior to milling.

Uses

Culinary

Rice flour can be used to make

In South India, rice flour is used for dishes like dosa, puttu,Chakkuli^[7] golibaje (mangalore bajji) and kori rotti. It is also mixed with wheat, millet, other cereal flours, and sometimes dried fruits or vegetables to make manni, a kind of baby food.^{[citation needed]}. Rice flour is used to make bhakari in the Konkan region in western India.

In Bangladesh, rice flour is a regular ingredient. In Bengali and Assamese cuisine of eastern India, it is used in making roti and desserts such as sandesh and pitha (rice cakes or pancakes which are sometimes steamed, deep fried or pan fried and served along with grated coconut, sesame seeds, jaggery and chashni). It is also used in making Kheer (a common dessert in Indian subcontinent).

In Sri Lanka, it is used in making many household food products. It is used in making food products such as pittu, appa (hoppers), indi appa (string hoppers) and sweets such as kewum, kokis, athirasa and many more. Also it can be used in making bread and other bakery products.

In Nepal, Newars use rice flour to make yomari and chataamari. Sel roti is another popular rice flour based food commonly eaten in Nepal and in the Sikkim and Darjeeling regions of India. Sel roti is known as Shinghal in Kumaon.

Central America

Rice flour is also used in the

Non-culinary

Cosmetics

Rice flour is used in the cosmetics industry.

Mushroom cultivation

Brown rice flour can be combined with vermiculite for use as a substrate for the cultivation of mushrooms. Hard cakes of colonised substrate can then be fruited in a humid container. This method is often (though not always) employed by growers of edible mushrooms, as it is a very simple and low-cost method of growing mushrooms.^{[citation needed]}

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