
Uppu Seedai/Salt seedai and Vella seedai/Sweet seedai recipes using store bought rice flour with tips and tricks to avoid bursting. Seedai is one of the most important Neivedyam recipes for Krishna Jayanthi @ Gokulashtami festival in Tamil nadu. Usually we make seedai recipes with homemade processed rice flour and roasted urad dal flour. I have already shared our traditional uppu Cheedai and vella cheedai recipes long back. This year, I tried cheedai using store bought rice flour as it is easy and quick to make. I used Anil Kozhukattai flour.
I guess Idiyappam flour works well too. I won’t say this seedai will melt-in-mouth like Adayar Ananda bhavan seedai, but it came out equally crispy and crunchy when compared with the traditional ones. Above all, It din’t burst. Cracks in the sweet seedai is unavoidable though. If you are a beginner, use the same quantity I mentioned here. Once you got them right, you can go for doubling the quantity. Friends, If you don’t have enough time to make processed rice flour but still want to make seedai, try this easy version with store bought rice flour. Follow the steps carefully if you are a beginner. You can make it really well.
Have a great Krishna Jayanthi celebration. Check out my other Gokulashtami recipes in THIS LINK. Lets see how to make uppu seedai and vella seedai with rice flour ( Kozhukattai flour) and tips to make it without bursting.
Please watch the video below for all the Gokulashtami recipes.


Uppu seedai and Vella seedai recipes
Uppu seedai and vella seedai recipe with store bought rice flour/Kozhukattai flour
INGREDIENTS
1 cup – 250ml
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Hi chitra, made your uppu seedai for the first time for janmashtami and it came out just perfect!!! Detailed description and pictorials helped me a lot. Thank you sooo much, will try vellai seedai sometime soon too and let u know :). Thanks once again :)
I forgot to roast the flour n it still turned out perfect n didn't burst :)
Feeling great to know it :) Thank you so much. I am sure your feedback will help other beginners too.
Thus is the very first time i'my visiting your blog. Yesterday I tried up put seedai. It came out very well. Thank you.
Thanks for visiting my blog and the feedback :)
I tried with store bought idiyappam flour day before yesterday..it didn't work..all seedai got dissolved in oil
There are many reasons for the seedai dissolving in oil. Either flour is not roated well or the quantity of jaggery is more, butter is more in salt seedai or oil temperature is less for frying. You can add more flour, make the dough tight and make one seedai in a mini kadai as shown in the video. You will get it right.
Hi chitra today tried both vella seemai and uppu seemai.came out well.no bursting.vella seemai too good.but uppu seedai is little less crunchier.what could be the reason?I tried with one cup flour(anil kolukkattai)and added ingredients accordingly.can u suggest something in this regard?Thanks in advance.
Did you add coconut Harini?
No i didnt add.i never add coconut pa.
Ok. Maybe butter is less. Iam really not sure about the reason. I will try today and let you know.
Hi Chitra,this time also I want to try this recipe.can u tell me is it one table spoon urad dal powder for 1/2cup rice flour?because in Ur previous recipe it is one table spoon for one cup rice flour.please tell me .
Hi Harini, its 1 tbsp urad dal flour for 1/2 cup rice flour. Yesterday I followed the same for kara seedai adding pottukadalai flour. It came out so crunchy. You can increase butter from 1.5 to 2 tsp in this recipe. So if you use 1 cup rice flour, please add 2 tbsp urad dal flour and 4 tsp butter. Hope it works well:) Please share your feedback too.
Thanks for Ur reply Chitra.how much pottukadalai flour I can add for one cup rice flour.
2 tbsp harini
Thank u Chitra.
Hi Chitra i tried seedai using pottu kadalai flour as u have suggested in the kaara seedai recipe.it came out really well and crunchy.thank u .
Thank you so much Harini 😍
Hi Chitra, Vasumathi from Mumbai. I like ur simple way of cooking and also explaining the same. Last year my uppu seedai burstand due to that , I am scared about making it. I shall try ur proportion this yr, thanks
Hello Vasumathi, Thank you. Please sieve the flour twice, check frying one or two in a mini kadai with little oil before going for batches. It works for sure 😊
Hello chitra,I was just randomly searching for seedai recipes and got into your blog.I made with store bought iddiyappam flour and tried your recipe.It came out very well.Thanks a ton.
Thank you so much for trying and sharing the feedback. Happy to know that 😊
Chitra,
Is it possible to use oil instead of butter for dairy free Sendai?
Hi, you can try hot oil.