Maddur Vada

Ingredients:

Rice flour 1 cup

All purpose flour (Maida) 1 cup

Onion 3-4 small to medium ones finely chopped

Curry leaves 3 strands

Coriander handful finely chopped

Green chillies 3-4 deseeded

Ginger an inch finely chopped

Cumin seeds 1 tsp

Oil as required

Salt to taste

Method:

• Grind to a coarse paste curry leaves, green chillies, ginger and cumin.
• In a bowl add all ingredients together with salt to taste and 2 tbsp of oil and mix into a soft dough by adding little amount of water.
• In a pan take oil and on medium flame fry the flattened dough until golden brown, let it cool and serve with some coconut chutney!

Chakli

Ingredients:

500gm of rice flour

100gm of Besan flour

2-3 tsp of red chilli powder

Salt to taste

2 pinches of baking soda

Water as required

Method:

• Slightly fry the rice flour for 5-6 min on slow heat.
• Transfer the rice flour and Besan flour into a mixing pan add chilli powder, salt, baking soda and make a dough out of it with adequate water.

• The dough should be of right consistency, i.e., if you use it in the chakli maker and squeeze out it should flow freely and not break. If it breaks then more water needs to be added to loosen the dough and so on.

• Squeeze out desired shapes and deep fry in boiling oil. The oil should be boiling hot so the chakli gets fried soon and does not suck in oil.

Note: if you want the Chakli snack really soft you could add some clarified butter.

Nipatt (Indian Spicy Cookie)

Baked Nipatt

Ingredients:
1cup All purpose flour (Maida)
1/2cup Onions finely chopped
1-2 Green chillies chopped or 1 tsp red chilli powder
3-4 strands Coriander leaves finely chopped
1/2 cup peanuts coarsely powdered
1/2 tsp sesame seeds
1tsp Baking powder
1tbsp Melted butter
salt to taste
water for making the dough(warm)

Method:
-Preheat the oven to 170* Celcius.
-Mix all the ingredients and make a soft dough.
-Divide into small balls and pat a little and make it of cracker thickness and bake them for 10-12minutes. [Bake for 2-5 minutes more if you need it crispier]

Fried Nipatt:

Ingredients:
1 cup rice flour
1/2 cup peanuts coarsely powdered
1/2cup Onions finely chopped
3-4 strands coriander leaves finely chopped
1/2 tsp sesame seeds
1-2 Green chillies chopped or 1 tsp red chilli powder
Salt
Oil to fry

Method:
-Mix all the ingredients (except oil). Add enough water to make it into a dough.
-Apply some oil to a plastic sheet (or use a wax paper). Make small balls of the dough and flatten them into small discs on the paper.
-Heat oil. Fry the discs till they are crispy.
-Cool to room temperature and then store in air tight container.