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Nippattu

Prep Time20 minutes
Cook Time20 minutes
Total Time40 minutes
Servings: 15 -20
Author: Sumana

Ingredients

  • Rice flour- 1 cup
  • Maida- 1/4 cup
  • Roasted gram- 1/4 cup
  • Peanuts- 1/4 cup
  • Grated copra- Handful
  • Cumin seeds- 1 tsp
  • Salt- 1 tsp
  • Red chilly powder- 1 tsp
  • White sesame seeds- 1 tsp
  • Curry leaves- Handful
  • Cooking oil - Enough for deep frying.

Instructions

Preparation

  • Sieve the rice flour and maida using a fine sieve and keep them ready.

Method

  • Coarsely powder the peanuts using mixer and transfer them to a wide bowl.
  • Add roasted gram to the same mixer and powder it as well. Transfer it to the same bowl.
  • Next grind grated copra, cumin and curry leaves together to a fine powder. Add it to the bowl. Combine all other ingredients like rice powder, maida, salt, red chilly powder and white sesame seeds with already transfered powders in the bowl.
  • Adding some hot oil to the contents of bowl mix everything together. Knead it to thick, pliable dough adding water as needed.
  • Taking a big lump of dough roll it to thick, circular shaped disc. Using a circular lid of any bottle mark 2 to 3 inch discs. Separate each disc like this and arrange on a plate.
  • Heat enough cooking oil in a wide wok, as it gets heated carefully drop the nippattu in to oil. Fry them till they turn deep brown fliping to other side after a while.
  • Using slotted ladle remove the nippatu from oil and drain them on kitchen tissue.
  • Crispy and crunchy nippattu is ready to serve as tea time snack.

Notes

  • The dough should not be too running which will make rolling difficult.
  • Roasted gram and peanuts are key ingredients in enhancing the taste of nippattu.
  • You can crush the peanuts and add instead of powdering.