Uppu Seedai

Uppu Seedai is one of the famous snacks for Krishna Jayanthi. This is my first attempt in making them. It looks simple, but very careful to handle to prepare this recipe. 

The rice flour and urad flour should be very nice and smooth. Then you need to pass the flours through the sieve until get smooth flour.

Ingredients

Raw Rice flour (Pacharisi mavu)- 2 cups
Urad dal flour - 3 tsp
Butter - 2 tsp
Grated Coconut - 2 tbsp

Chilli powder -1 tsp
Hing - 1/4 tsp
Salt as required
Oil for deep frying

Method

Soak raw rice for 3 to 4 hours in water, drain the water completely and spread it in a cloth to dry. Then grind it to a fine powder. Sieve it and keep it aside.

Then dry roast the rice flour till it becomes slightly hot to touch. Do not roast the flour until it changes color.

Dry roast whole urad dal till it turns golden brown. After it cools, grind it to a very fine powder and sieve it.

Mix hing and salt in a little water and keep it ready. Mix well rice flour, urad dal flour, grated coconut, butter, chilli powder, salt and hing first.

Then sprinkle water and make smooth dough. Do not add too much water. Now grease your palms with oil and make small balls roughly from the dough.

You do not have to make fine smooth balls. Make small sized so that it will get cooked well inside. Spread the balls in a cloth for few minutes to dry.

Heat oil in a kadai, add a small ball of seedai, if it comes to the surface, the oil is hot enough to fry the seedais.

Now keep it in medium flame, drop a handful of balls gently into the oil and fry the balls. Keep stirring so that it will get cooked evenly. 

Once it done, then take it out and remove the excess oil. Store it in an airtight container.