In East-Indian rice starch is put to its best use and what surprises me is the quantity of rice cooked in summer to collect rice starch in abundance to be stored as a beverage.
The tips to make the best use of rice starch in summers is as follows:
1. Drink rice starch with a dash of salt and cayenne pepper.
2. Use rice starch instead of water to cook vegetables and greens.
3. Add rice starch to ragi to double-up the cooling effect.
4. Store rice starch and temper it with green chilies, mustard seeds and garlic.
5. Add rice starch to thicken gravies.
6. Store it up to make rice wine.
7. Add rice starch to chickpeas, lentils, spinach to make a summer casserole.
