An authentic dish very own to my hubby s place . A roti made out of a coarse rice flour fried along with coconuts to dry and stored .The colour of this flour is a light cream colour . This flour is called as thengaatta maavu . I have seen this flour only in my hubby’s place not any where else . They use the flour for another dish called thakkadi which is rice flour balls cooked in mutton gravy . Any dish made with this rice flour makes you feel stuffed in the tummy and sure to put you off to sleep . Every muslim house in Nellai will surely have this rice flour stored in their homes . Initially when l was newly married , the rice flour was pound at home with a stone mortal and a long wooden pistol ( urulai and olakai in Tamil ) by women. (Nellai woman are physically strong ) . It would take an entire day for them to got the rice flour ready . The entire house would be a mess that one day . In fact my in-laws place has a separate room behind our ancestral home specially for this purpose (i followed the same and have a room for this purpose at my place to ) and the flour was fried only in a wood stove. Now a days we got the flour pounded in the near by rice mill but the frying part of the rice flour is still done the old school way of using a fire wood stove which I think gives the flour a nice smoky flavour . I have suggested puttu rice flour as substitute to this rice flour as its a difficult process to make this rice flour and not easily available any where other than the southern districts of Tamilnadu . So folks make sure to buy this thengaatta rice flour once you pass by Nellai along with our Tirunelveli special halwa :-)) .