Whole wheat flour string hoppers or Atta flour Idiyappam is one of the healthiest ways to make string hoppers in Sri Lanka. Who doesn’t like string hoppers? Most of the people in Sri Lanka would like to have string hoppers for breakfast or dinner. Many people in Sri Lanka make string hoppers with roasted white rice flour. But doctors, especially Sri Lankan doctors suggest us to avoid white flour, white rice, and white bread as these are the main foods to cause blood sugar. This is the main reason why I’m going to show you how to make whole wheat flour string hoppers in an easy way.
How is whole wheat flour impact in your healthy diet? Wheat is rich in catalytic elements, magnesium, mineral salts, copper, chlorine, calcium, manganese, potassium, sulfur, arsenic, silicon, zinc, iodide, vitamin E, and vitamin B. The roasted whole wheat flour is controlling obesity, improves metabolism, prevents type 2 diabetes, reduces chronic inflammation, assures a healthy lifestyle, prevents asthma, and prevents heart attack. Apart from all, wheat is the good choice to prevent breast cancer in women. This is how wheat flour influence in your healthy diet in various ways.
Basically, Sri Lankans eat roasted whole wheat flour string hoppers at breakfast or dinner. But you can have this at lunchtime as well. If you do not taste the string hoppers in your lifetime, this is the great chance to make it possible. Alright, let’s see how to make Sri Lankan style whole wheat flour string hoppers or Atta flour Idiyappam.
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Whole Wheat Flour String Hoppers
Ingredients
- Roasted whole wheat flour/Atta flour – 300g
- Hot water – 225ml
- Normal water – 175ml
- Salt – As you need
Instructions
1. Take a large bowl and add the roasted whole wheat flour.
2. Mix the hot water, ordinary water, and salt together. (Refer Note 1)
3. Pour the water into the whole wheat flour little by little. Don’t let the water’s hotness gets down.
4. While you pour the semi-hot water little by little, mix them using a spoon.
5. Now, kneading the dough with your fingers to smooth and doesn’t stick.
6. Wash your hands, string hopper press, and string hopper trays.
7. Now, fill the dough in the string hopper press and press both handles to squeeze onto the string hopper trays as shown in the picture below. (Refer Note 2)
8. Heat the water in a string hopper steamer.
9. Once the water boiled, place the string hopper trays in the steamer. Cook covered under high flame until the string hoppers cooked well. It may take about 2 to 4 minutes. (Refer Note 3)
10. Now, take off the trays and let them cool down.
11. Finally, remove the string hoppers from the trays.
12. Repeat the same process until you done with the dough.
13. Serve and enjoy these Sri Lankan style easy and healthy whole wheat flour string hoppers.
Notes
Note 1: For this particular recipe, the water hotness level impacts a lot in final string hopper’s softness. The water shouldn’t be very hot or normal hot. It should be in semi-hot stage. That’s why I mixed very hot water with normal water and make it into the semi-hot water.
Note 2: Don’t fill the dough to edge of the string hopper press. It will make you hard to press/squeeze. Just fill around 90% or less of the string hopper press.
Note 3: Basically, whole wheat flour string hoppers cooked little faster than other flour string hoppers. So, don’t let them cook a long time.
Printable Recipe Card
- Roasted whole wheat flour/Atta flour - 300g
- Hot water - 225ml
- Normal water - 175ml
- Salt - As you need
- Take a large bowl and add the roasted whole wheat flour.
- Mix the hot water, ordinary water, and salt together. (Refer Note 1)
- Pour the water into the whole wheat flour little by little. Don’t let the water’s hotness gets down.
- While you pour the semi-hot water little by little, mix them using a spoon.
- Now, kneading the dough with your fingers to smooth and doesn’t stick.
- Wash your hands, string hopper press, and string hopper trays.
- Now, fill the dough in the string hopper press and press both handles to squeeze onto the string hopper trays. (Refer Note 2)
- Heat the water in a string hopper steamer.
- Once the water boiled, place the string hopper trays in the steamer. Cook covered under high flame until the string hoppers cooked well. It may take about 2 to 4 minutes. (Refer Note 3)
- Now, take off the trays and let them cool down.
- Finally, remove the string hoppers from the trays.
- Repeat the same process until you done with the dough.
- Serve and enjoy these Sri Lankan style easy and healthy whole wheat flour string hoppers.
Note 2: Don’t fill the dough to edge of the string hopper press. It will make you hard to press/squeeze. Just fill around 90% or less of the string hopper press.
Note 3: Basically, whole wheat flour string hoppers cooked little faster than other flour string hoppers. So, don’t let them cook a long time.
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The recipe looks great. But the author needs to specifically state how long to roast the whole wheat flour. Otherwise recipe looks great.