Uppu Seedai

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

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.

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