Friday, May 1, 2015

Nipattu


Ingredients:

Maida/ All purpose flour - 1 cup
Rice flour - 1/2 cup
Powdered fried gram(Hurigadale) - 1/4 cup
Grated coconut - 1/2 cup
Curry leaves - 1 strand
Ground nuts - 5 tsp
Fried gram - 2 tsp
Cumin seeds - 1/4 tsp
Salt
Red chillies - 5 no
Oil - for deep fry
Hot oil - 3 tsp (For mixing)
Hing
2 transparent plastic (small square) sheets for rolling the dough

Method:
1. Crush ground nuts and fried gram seperately (DONOT powder this, Just pulse it 2 times using 
    Pulse button in blender/mixer) and set aside
2. Now make fine powder of fried gram and set aside
3. Make paste by grinding coconut, jeera, red chillies and curry leaves
4. Take a mixing bowl, add maida, rice flour,fried gram powder,salt,hing and mix well
5. Now add crushed ground nuts, fried gram, hot oil and grounded paste (from step 3)
6. Mix well to make a dough (Add required amount of water and consistancy should be harder than
    to chapati dough )
7. Take small portion of dough and roll it between palm to make ball shape and place it at center
    between plastic sheets, then roll it to circle shape using rolling pin (Reason for using plastic   
    sheet is just to avoid dough sticking to rolling pin)
8. Slowly take it out from sheet and deep fry till golden brown