Easy-to-make south Indian mixture
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Mixture is an any-time snack with professionals and homemakers turning innovative by adding various mixes that make the mixture. Once a bakery-only exclusive, the mixture is a home-made snack today. Ideal with tea, its sweet-salty-spicy flavour makes for an ideal crunchy. Here's the recipe and know how the mixes are fried right to make it one of the most popular snacks.
Ingredients
200 gm besan or chickpea flour (kadalamavu)
3 tbsp rice four
2 tspn chilli powder
1/2 tspn turmeric powder
1 pinch asafoetida
50 gm groundnuts
25 gm split chickpeas/pottukadala (roasted)
Curry leaves
Salt
Oil
Preparation
Mix besan, rice flour, chilli powder, turmeric powder, asafoetida and salt with water and make a soft dough
Pour oil into a pan, add curry leaves
Once the aroma comes, drain and set aside
Fry the groundnut and split chickpeas. Set aside
Fry them separately lest they turn too dark
When all the ingredients are ready, put the dough into a kitchen press
Press out the dough into hot oil in the shape of rings
When they turn crisp, drain them out and set them aside to cool
To make boondi, add a little more water to the dough and press them through bigger rings and fry till they are crisp
Now, mix the fried rings, curry leaves, groundnut and split chickpeas along with the boondi
Add salt, chilli powder and asafoetida
Mix well