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Sel Roti

Name: Sel Roti
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Nepal
Ingredients: 300g Rice (soaked); 1 Bananas; 100g Sugar; 1 tsp Cardamom powder; 100ml Milk; To taste Vegetable Oil (for frying)

Dessert

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Rice-flour batter fried in rings — a doughnut-like sweet essential at Nepali festivals.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Sel roti is a traditional Nepali sweet bread made by piping a fermented rice-flour batter into rings by hand and frying. During big festivals like Dashain and Tihar, families make it in large batches and share it with relatives and neighbors. Crisp outside and chewy inside, it's also enjoyed with tea.

🌆 Where it's eaten: Before Tihar, the whole family mixes rice flour and drops the batter into hot oil in circles to make sel roti.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Rice (soaked) 300g
Bananas 1
Sugar 100g
Cardamom powder 1 tsp
Milk 100ml
Vegetable Oil (for frying) To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Blend the soaked rice with banana, sugar, and ground cardamom into a paste.
Add milk to make a batter that flows thickly.
Heat oil and pipe the batter in rings by hand or from the corner of a plastic bag.
Fry until golden on both sides.
Drain well.

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