Ribbon Pakoda

This is a tasty and crunchy snack and easy to prepare. The main ingredients for this are rice flour and gram flour. Actually there are many variations for this recipe and mostly made with more of gram flour and little of rice flour. But by mistake I made it with more of rice flour and less of gram flour and it came out well. The rice flour actually helped the pakodas stay white and crispy.


Ingredients:

Rice Flour - 2 cups
Gram flour - 1/2 cup
Red chilly powder - 1 tsp
Salt
Butter - 1 tsp
Oil - to deep fry
Water

Method:

• Mix rice flour, gram flour, salt and chilly powder in a mixing bowl

• Melt the butter and add it to the above mix

• Add water little by little and knead well to make a soft dough

• Heat oil in a pan for frying.

• Put the mix in the press with the plate having thin lengthy slots (This will get the dough in thin flat strips)

• Press the ribbon pakodas directly on hot oil round throughtout the pan as you would do for omapodi. Cook on both sides till the spluttering of oil stops

• Drain excess oil on a tissue paper. Cool it and store in an air tight container