Ingredient: rice flour

Rice Flour – An Ingredient Used For Thickening

Rice flour home recipes are widely prepared in China. The reason is that you know that soups are commonly and frequently prepared in China. When they find that the soups are very watery, the Chinese use rice flour for bringing the expected thickness to the soup. The most important reason for using this flour in Chinese recipes is that it does not alter the taste of the soup but makes the soup thick enough and easy to consume. Even, the Chinese use rice flour to make noodles and pancakes. The Chinese use mostly glutinous rice and use it for creating mochi.

To prepare rice flour recipes in your home, you will have to make sure that the flour is available handy in your home. Earlier, people used to prepare this flour at their homes by grinding the rice. But, nowadays, you can get flours readily available in stores. If you plan to use the flour for thickening any dishes, you will have to first dilute a spoon of this flour in water. Once it dissolves in water and turns into a thick paste, you can add it to any recipe and boil for a few minutes. Now, you will find that the dish has become thick.