Mixture

Ingredients for Mixture:

1. Besan (Gram flour) – ½ kg

2. Oil – 1 kg

3. Cashews – 200 gm

    Curry leaves – A handful

4. Chilli powder – 1 small spoon

    Salt – 1 small spoon

    Asafoetida powder – ½ small spoon

How to prepare Mixture?

1. Blend well ¼ kg of gram flour.

2. Add 1.5 cups of water and prepare the batter without any lumps.

3. Heat oil.

4. Through a perforated spoon (spatula with pores), pour this mixture into the hot oil.

5. Slightly rotate the spoon so that drops fall uniformly on the surface of the oil.

6. Deep fry the boondis and drain off excess oil.

7. Using the remaining gram flour, prepare a batter, and it should be thick, similar to idiyappam.

8. Transfer this batter to the idiyappam maker (sevanazhi), and press it in hot oil to prepare the sev.

9. Slightly swirl it so that the batter falls uniformly on the surface of the oil.

10. Once it is done, strain the oil and drain off excess oil.

11. Using your hands, break them into small parts.

12. In the remaining oil, fry cashew nuts and curry leaves.

13. Add it to fried boondi and sev, and mix well.

14. Sprinkle ingredients no: 4 on its top, mix well, and serve.

Courtesy: Vanitha Magazine April 15-30, 2018

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