Khara Boondi

Khara boondi is most traditional spicy snack in south. Prepared almost all the occasions and festivals. Easy to prepare the only thing need a special perforated ladle (Boondi ladle). Khara is a kannada / Tamil word. It means hot & spicy. Suitable to just snack with coffee / tea or have it as an accompaniment with rasam rice etc. I made this now becoz here the weather was getting colder everyday and its nice to have something spicy during the evenings with coffee!!

Prep Time : 10 Mins
Frying Time : 15 - 20 Mins
Serves - 4

Ingredients

• Besan flour / Chickpea / Gram flour /  Kadalemavu - 2 cups
• Rice flour / Arshimavu - 1/2 cup
• Baking powder - a pinch
• Salt to taste
• Red chilli powder - 1&1/2 tsp
• Turmeric powder / manje  - a pinch
• Asafoetida / hing / perangyam - a pinch
• Water 
• Oil - 400 ml (to deep fry)

Other Ingredients

• Peanuts / Kadlekai - 1/2 cup
• Curry leaves - 1/4 cup
• Cashews - 2 tbsp

Method

1. Heat oil in a medium flame
2. Sieve gram flour / kadalemavu
3. Mix all the ingredients in a bowl  add enough water to make a thick batter 
4. Add Peanuts, Cashews, Curry leaves in hot oil,  deep fry all one at a time and remove drain the paper towel and sprinkle salt and redchilli powder (very little) mix well and keep aside.
5. Take a perforated ladle in a spoon  fill the batter and press slowly in hot oil fry till golden  color. 
6. Drain the paper towel and repeat the same procedure for next batch. Mix with peanuts, cashews curryleaves in a large bowl along with fried boondi mix well.
7. Store in the airtight boxes.
8. Serve with Coffee / Tea or serve with Rasam rice, Bisibelebath

| Copyright © Malas - Kitchen 2014 | | All rights reserved