Nippattu

Another fried snack. I prepared this for Ganesha festival, but could not post the recipe till now. In fact, all the recipes from now on for quite sometime is backlog being uploaded. Mummy used to prepare all these together - rave unde, chakkali, nippattu, kodubale. She used to prepare in large quantities with the assistance of my aunts and granny. It used to be a large group gathered when such snacks and festivities were prepared. Now, with everyone busy in their works none of us staying in close proximity to each other, we end up cooking in small quantities and at times not cooking this stuff at all. I have seen more number of people buying from supermarkets and groceries where they sell this stuff ready. I had done it once but did not like the items much and it did not give me the fulfillment and satisfaction i have when i do it myself. So here goes, another of the fried stuff recipe......

NIPPATTU:



Ingredients:

2 cups rice flour
1/2 cup besan (fried gram flour)
1/2 cup dried coconut (grate and powder)
3 tbsp fried, peeled and lightly crushed groundnuts
6-7 dry red chillies (byadagi variety), coarsely powdered
2 sprigs of curry leaves roughly chopped
1/4 tsp red chilli powder
1/4 tsp hing
2 tbsp hot oil for mixing the dough
a pinch of salt

Method of Preparation:

1. Mix all the ingredients mentioned above into a dough.
2. Make small balls and flatten it into 1/2 inch thick discs on a plastic sheet.
3. Slide it into hot oil and once reddish brown, remove it from the oil.
4. Repeat the same till you exhast all the dough.
5. Cool it and then store it in a air tight container.