Ribbon pakoda

It's a great snack idea for tea time, party or kids snacks box.  It is very popular South Indian murukku variety easily available in all the sweets shops, it's crunchy yet soft a perfect tea time snack.

I prepared this for diwali festival. If you haven't tried ribbon pakoda yet then you should give a try it's really easy and delicious to eat for kids and all.

Ingredients

Rice Flour – 2 cups

Bengal Gram Flour (Besan) – 1 cup

Red Chilli Powder – 2 tsp

Garlic Paste – 1 tsp

Asafoetida – 2 pinches

Sesame Seeds – 1 tsp

Melted Butter – 3 tsp

Oil for deep frying

Salt to taste

Method

In a big bowl, add the rice flour and gram flour, red chilli powder, salt, sesame seeds, butter, garlic paste and asafoetida. Mix this into a soft dough using water.

In a kadai, heat oil for deep frying. Add a portion of dough in the murukku press. You can use ribbon pakoda achu.

Press directly in oil in circular motion starting from edge to canter. Do not overlap, and fry in medium heat until golden brown or when the bubbles ceases, turn over and until bubbles ceases again. 

Drain the excess oil in a kitchen towel. Repeat this for the remaining dough. Store this air tight container.

Note

• If the flour is not of fine texture the pakoda will break when we make and also it will drink oil.
• Fresh ground pepper powder (or) green chilli paste can also be used along with red chilli powder.
• Always fry the pakoda in hot oil. If you make the make the flame low the pakodas will drink lot of oil.