One of the common food item among the Eastern Indians is Flattened Rice. Rice that is made up of Raw Paddy. So today My Mom asked me to get some Paddy's churned into Flattened Rice from the local market. This is my first time visit to get the Paddy churning into Flattened Rice from a Mill.

She did the needful at home and get the Paddy soaked in warm water yesterday(a day before). Now it is required to be churned from the local Mill shop. A mill or you can say a big furnace or machine for getting the Paddy's grinded into Flattened rice.

Looking at the Furnace, I was bit confused how , it help in getting me a Flattened Rice. Two cylindrical mouth and stove beneath. As it was early morning, I have to wait in the long queue. Luckily I got to 4th in the sequence. Keeping my sack of Paddy I started to look for entire process.
Two men came near to the furnace and start arranging for the combustion material. In this case it's wood and coal. They put the material from the side face and lit the furnace.

My curiosity for the entire steps started to get more. I never seen how flattened rice are made. Many times I bought Flattened Rice directly from stores.
When my turn came in, I emptied the sack of Paddy into a basket.

Another men who is operating the furnace , started to put little quantity of Paddys in to the front Cylindrical mouth. Actually he was drying and frying the Paddy's in the furnace. The furnace inside the mouth is revolving alongwith some black sand. It is traditional way of baking or you may say dry frying the Paddy's. The operator guy is holding a long handle like spoon for putting and taking out the Paddy's from the furnace.

While it was baking inside the furnace , I have a look inside the mill shop. It was totally dearranged and lot of sacks are kept inside one after the another. I further noticed, there is another big machine inside the shop as well.

Coming back to my baked paddy, the operator took out Paddy's from inside the furnace and another men started filtering the sand particle from it. It is also a manual work, as he filtering it with hand using a sieve.

After, filtering out the Baked Paddy that guy took it inside the store, where the big machine was revolving at a high speed . He put small quantity of the baked Paddy inside the big machine.

That machine is moving at a higher speed, and the Paddy started to grind within. The operator of this machine keep examining the grinding process through, he is making assure that paddy get properly grinded.

After, baking and putting the entire sack into the big machine mine, Flattened Rice is almost ready. Slowly he refilled my empty sack with Flattened rice.

There were lot of husk as well, alongwith the flattened rice. Well the mill work has been done and now it's turn at home to seperate the husk (powdered material) and the flattened rice. My Mom took this job and she carefully seperate both of them. Here is the final look that took me 5hrs.

This Flattened Rice is very dry , we use or say eat it either with curd and adding sweet or salt. Another way to use it is by frying with edible oil and salt . A good evening snack with Tea.

A good learning for today, where I got to know the entire process how the Flattened Rice are made. In India we call them Poha or Churwa

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