Goan traditional breakfast the rice cakes. SANNA

.Hello, friends! Greetings! Everybody must be proud of their culture and traditions. I'm very fond of my culture and tradition, and I respect it. When I'm in India, I participate in social, cultural, or family activities. Including making traditional food is one of my hobbies, because it's hard to find the right ingredients in my Western world. So, when I'm here, I enjoy the food that I can't easily make there.

Today, I'm sharing with you a recipe for our traditional Goan steamed rice cake, called SANNA. This is different from Idli, which I shared previously. Usually, the for Sanna recipe one local community uses coconut toddy, but I'm using dry yeast instead.
Ingredients:

1 cup or 250 grams of special local steamed rice.
1 cup of fresh coconut
1 tsp sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp dry yeast
1 tsp coconut oil to grease molds or cups.

for coconut juice
1 cup fresh coconut
2 cardamom
1 tbsp coconut jaggery
1 tbsp sugar cane jaggery.

Thoroughly wash rice until it gets very clear water.

After washing them soak them in the water for about 3-4 hours.

After 4 hours drain the water and pour rice in a mixer. add salt, sugar, coconut 1 cup. and yeast adding water gradually blend all ingredients.

It has to be a little grainy cocitansy.

remove the mixture from the mixer to the bowl or pan and keep fermenting overnight.

next morning the mixture will look like this.

Set molds or cups in the steamer or metal strainer.

Grease the cups with coconut oil to avoid them sticking to cups.

Fill molds/cups with batter.

filled half full batter in the cups.

Set them for steaming, cover, and cook them for about 6-7 minutes on medium heat.

Meanwhile, we can make the coconut juice together with sanna.

using 1 cup fresh coconut, 2 cardamom, 1 tbsp coconut jaggery 1 tbsp sugar cane jaggery pinch of salt.

In a mixer add all the above ingredients coconut, jaggery, and cardamoms.

and blend until gets a fine paste.

Make a pin test to check they are done. If the pin comes clear then Sanna is done.

Remove from heat and let them Cool down.
After cooling down remove them from cups.

Serve with coconut juice.

This is the way we make steamed rice cake in Goa they are soft spongy, and delicious simple vegan breakfast.
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