Ragi Pepper Crackers
Ragi Pepper Crackers
Pin Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp chana dal - soaked for 30 min
- 3 tbsp fried gram
- 2 tbsp peanuts
- 2-3 tbsp peppercorns - Adjust according to your spice level
- 1/2 cup rice flour
- 1/2 cup Ragi flour
- 2-3 tbsp gram flour
- 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
- 1 tsp chilli powder
- 1 spring curry leaves - chopped
- 1 tsp cumin seeds
- 1/2 tsp sesame seeds
- 2 tbsp oil - for dough
- salt - per taste
Instructions
- Soak chana dal (Kadalai Parupu) for at least 30 min.Grind fried gram(Pottukadalai) to fine powder.Slightly roast the peanuts and remove skin and roughly give a pulse and make it to coarse powder.Grind peppercorns to powder separately.
- Take a bowl, put in Rice flour, Ragi flour (Rice and Ragi in equal ratio), Fried gram flour( from step2), Gram flour (kadalai maavu), Turmeric powder and chilli powder and salt.
- Mix well and sieve these flour to a mixing bowl. To this, add soaked and drained chana dal, coarsely ground peanuts, freshly ground pepper powder, chopped curry leaves,cumin seeds, sesame seeds and oil.Make a tight soft dough with very little water. Use extra oil if necessary.
- make very small gooseberry size balls out of it. Place a tissue and then a neat cloth over it. Place the balls on the cloth. Grease your fingers with oil and flatten them to thin round. Prick them slightly with fork all over.
- Transfer the flattened dough to back of ladle. Heat oil and in medium flame, fry them in batches.