Thattai

Ingredients:

• Rice flour – 4 cups
• Urad dal flour- 1/4 cup
• Roasted gram flour (pottukadalai) – 3/4 cup
• Channa dal – 2 tblsp
• Peanut (skin less) – 2 tbsp (Crushed)
• Red chilli powder – 2 tsp
• Melted Butter – 2 tbsp
• White sesame seeds – 1 tbsp
• Water – as needed
• Oil – for deep frying
• Asafoetida – 1/4 tsp
• Curry leaves –few
• Salt – as needed

• Take a small Kadai and dry roast the Roasted gram (Pottukadalai). Take it out and let it cool. Once cooled, grind it into a fine powder.
• Then dry roast the roasted Urad dal. Take it out and let it cool. And grind it into a fine powder.
• Then dry roast the roasted Peanut .Take it out and let it cool. And crush it roughly.
• Soak the Channa dal for 1/2 an hour to 1 hour. Drain the water from the soaked Channa dal.

• Mix the Rice flour, Urad dal flour and the roasted Gram flour. Add the Channa dal to the flour.
• Add the Curry leaves, Salt, Butter, Red chilli powder, Sesame seeds and crushed Peanut. Knead it into a dough adding enough water. The dough should be firm not watery.

• Grease a zip lock cover (or any similar) with oil and keep it over a flat vessel bottom (upside down). Take a lemon sized dough and flatten it using your palm. To avoid puff make holes using Fork.

• Heat a Kadai with oil. When the oil is hot, keep the flame in medium.
• Drop the Thattai into oil and fry both sides until the sizzling sound of the oil subsides.

• Take it out and using paper towel remove the excess oil. And store it in the air tight container.
• The tasty and crunchy Thatti is ready.