Green Lentil Nippattu | Hesarubele Nippattu Recipe
Servings: 25
Ingredients
- Rice flour- 1 cup
- Chiroti rava- 1/2 cup
- Green gram lentils- 1/8 cup
- Maida- 2 tsp
- White sesame seeds- 2 tsp
- Cumin seeds- 1 tsp
- Salt- 1 tsp
- Cooking oil- enough to deep fry
To grind
- Desiccated coconut- 1/4 cup
- Red chillies- 3 nos.
- Asafoetida- 1/4 tsp
- Curry leaves- Few
Instructions
Preparation
- Soak the green gram lentils in enough water for about 15 minutes.
Method
- In a wide bowl take the rice flour, rava, maida, salt, cumin and white sesame seeds. Give a quick mix.
- In a mixer add desiccated coconut, red chillies, curry leaves and asafoetida. Grind them together to coarse powder.
- Include drained lentils and ground red chilly masala from above step. Mix well.
- Add 1/4 cup hot oil to the bowl and combine it so that flour crumbles. Next adding water little by little, make stiff dough. Taking a big lump of dough and roll it over as thin circle and using any lid mark circles over dough.
- Heat oil in a heavy bottom wok, when it heats up drop the nippattu in it. Fry till they are crisp and drain over the tissue. Repeat this for all the rolled nippattu.
- Crispy nippattu is ready to serve as tea time snack.
Notes
- Adding hot oil initially to the flour helps in making the nippattu crisp. After this, add water little by little to knead the dough.
- The dough should be stiff otherwise the nippattu could drink lot of oil.