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Pakodam
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Pakodam - a crisp, deep-fried rice flour and gram flour snack, pressed through a murukku press with its round plate.
Rice flour, besan and urad dal dough with butter and spices, pressed through the murukku press and fried till crisp.
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AMMAMMA'S NOTES.
Rice flour
3 cups
Besan (channa flour)
1 cup
Chilly powder
1 spoon
Asafoetida
1/4 tsp
Salt
to taste
Butter
3 spoons
Urad dal powder
2 spoons
Oil (for frying)
as needed
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In a bowl, mix the rice flour, besan, salt, asafoetida, chilly powder and urad dal powder.
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Add the butter and 3 spoons of hot oil, and mix everything well.
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Add water and knead with hands into a dough like chapati dough - not too watery or too stiff.
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Fit the pakodam (round) plate onto the murukku press, fill with dough, and press directly into hot oil.
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Fry until golden and crisp.
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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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