Thattai(South Indian Snack)

Made this for the first time and happy that it turned out crunchy, tasty and the way I expected. We can make so many pieces as much as we can at a time so that we can have a bite whenever we want with tea.:)

Ingredients:

Rice Flour - 6 cups
Urad Dhal Flour - 1 cup
Curry leaves - few
salt - to taste
White Sesame seeds - 2 spoons
Asafoetida - 1/4 spoon
Chilly powder - 2 spoons or to your spice level
Soaked Channa Dal - 2 spoons(soak it for half hour in hot water and use it)

Oil - for deep fry

Preparation:

• Mix all the ingredients in a bowl, add little water at a time and make a firm dough. Add little oil at the end for smoothness but this is optional.
• Rest this for 5 mins.

• Now make small lemon size balls out of it.

• Meanwhile heat the oil for deep frying in a frying pan.
• Now take a plastic sheet greased with oil. place one ball on it, and press well (by hand or using the base tip of stainless steel cup) to make a small circle. It should not be too thin/thick.
• Do this for the remaining balls.
• Grease more oil on the plastic sheet if you feel its sticky.
• Now deep fry them in oil until brown on both sides.
• If the sound of frying in the oil reduces rapidly, you can take out the thattais and drain them in paper towel. Check whether they are crunchy and not soft.
• Once they cool down, place them in a container.

Once stored in a an air tight contatiner,we can use even upto a month.

You can also reduce the amount of flour used to make them less in quantity but the ratio should be 1:6-----Urad Dhal Flour:Rice Flour.

For making Urad Dhal Flour - Just take 1 cup of urad dhal, dry roast in a pan until light brown,cool off and grind into powder.

Sending this to "Deep Fried Snacks" event hosted by Tickling Palates.