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Uppu Seedai

Deep fried rice flour and black gram savoury. This is a Sanjeev Kapoor exclusive recipe.

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Uppu Seedai
Main Ingredients Rice flour, Split skinless black gram (dhuli urad dal) flour
Cuisine Tamil Nadu
Course Snacks and Starters
Prep Time 0-5 minutes
Cook time 1-1.30 hour
Serve 4
Taste Mild
Level of Cooking Easy
Others Veg
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Ingredients list for Uppu Seedai

  • 1/2 cup Rice flour
  • 1 tablespoon Split skinless black gram (dhuli urad dal) flour
  • 1 tablespoon Scraped coconut
  • to taste Salt
  • 1 teaspoon Sesame seeds (til)
  • 1 tablespoon Ghee
  • a pinch Asafoetida
  • 1/2 teaspoon Shredded curry leaves
  • for deep-frying Oil

Method

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  1. Heat a non-stick pan, add rice flour and sauté for a minute. Remove from heat, put into a bowl.
  2. Add black gram flour to the same pan and sauté for a minute. Remove from heat and put into another bowl.
  3. Saute coconut in the same pan and sauté for a minute. Remove from heat and put into a third bowl.
  4. Sift together both the flours into a mixing bowl. Add coconut, salt, sesame seeds, ghee, asafoetida and curry leaves and rub with your hands to get wet sand like consistency. Add sufficient water and knead into a soft dough. Set aside for five minutes.
  5. Heat sufficient oil in a kadai.
  6. Divide the dough into twelve equal portions and flatten them into small tikkis.
  7. Gently slide the tikkis into hot oil and deep-fry on medium heat till golden and crisp. Drain on absorbent paper. Cool down to room temperature.
  8. Store in airtight containers and use as required.

Nutrition Info

Calories 800
Carbohydrates 61.3
Protein 9.8
Fat 57.2
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