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Omapudi
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Omapudi - a crisp carom-seed flavoured snack, pressed through the three-holed plate of the murukku press.
Besan and rice flour dough with roasted omam and butter, pressed through the murukku press and fried till crisp.
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AMMAMMA'S NOTES.
Omam (carom seeds)
3 spoons
Besan
1 cup
Rice flour
1/2 cup
Salt
to taste
Chilly powder
to taste
Butter
4 spoons
Oil (for dough and frying)
as needed
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Lightly fry the omam and grind it to a powder.
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Mix the omam powder with besan, rice flour, salt, chilly powder and butter.
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Add hot oil and mix, then knead into a dough with water.
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Fit the omapudi (three-hole) plate onto the murukku press and press the dough directly into hot oil.
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Fry until golden and crisp.
Pakodam
Rice flour, besan and urad dal dough with butter and spices, pressed through the murukku press and fried till crisp.
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Mutha-Saram
Muthasaram - a crisp fried snack pressed into a star shape using the murukku press's star plate.
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THE DIFFICULTY OF SQUEEZING MAAVU INTO HOT OIL, WITH STEAM BURNING YOUR HANDS, WITH THE ONLY ALTERNATIVE BEING WASTING THE DOUGH STUCK IN THE KUZHAL- MY VERSION OF A CORE MEMORY. THIS GENRE OF FOOD ALWAYS REMINDS ME OF OUR DIWALI PREP DAYS, AND HOW WE GOT TO SPEND MULTIPLE HOURS TOGETHER STEALING BITES OF EVERY SINGLE THING WE FRIED (FOR QUALITY CONTROL PURPOSES).
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