Showing posts with label Snacks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Snacks. Show all posts

Plantain (Raw banana) chips / Vazhaikai Varuval

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Plantain Chips


My favourite snack!! The tastiest chips!! Any special occasion, mom makes vazhakai chips and gulab jamun for me.

Ingredients:

Long raw bananas
Salt to taste
Chilli powder- to taste

Peel off the skin of raw bananas. Cut off the edges
Heat sufficient oil for deep flying in a kadai.
Slice the plantains directly into hot oil using a mandalin slicer.
You can alternatively slice them in a plate and then transfer it into the hot oil.
Fry well till the oil reduces sizzling and the chips feel light and done.
Spread the fried chips on paper kitchen towels.
Sprinkle salt and chilli powder and mix well.
Enjoy!

Alternatively, you can also season it with salt, freshly cracked pepper and hing.

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Acchu MURUKU (Manugombu)

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Recipe courtesy: Kamala (my Paati)

Well, this is not the authentic 'Kai muruku' which is whiter in colour and made with rice flour and urad dal flour... This is called Manugombu and a star shaped press is used to press out the muruku dough.
I am not at all artistic, so my muruku shape is not perfect:)

Ingredients:
4 cups rice flour
1 cup moong dal flour (payatham maav)-green gram flour
salt to taste
hing 4 dashes
1 tsp jeera (cumin) / sesame seeds
3 tbsp ghee/butter

Heat sufficient oil in a deep fryer.
Mix all the above ingredients dry first. Slowly add water and bring it to a smooth dough consistency (smoother than a chappati dough).
Press through star plate in the press set and make small murukus on plastic sheets
Deep fry these murukus in the hot oil till golden crisp on both sides!
Preserve in airtight containers and enjoy!

Tips:
Don't have moong dal flour at home?? Hate taking so much effort?? Go to the nearest Indian store, buy MTR Muruku mix. Add 3 tbsp butter and 1 tsp jeera to the mix. Add sufficient water and press the dough through the star press. Make small murukus. Fry in hot oil till crisp on both sides. Enjoy!

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Chips

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Potato Chips

How I miss the Indian potato chips... Here in the US, we have a great variety of potato chips but not a single flavour tastes like the simple potato chips with salt and chilli powder... However, I came up with a simple way to turn your store bought potato chips to the Indian style ones...(inspired by a food network program)

Buy a big pkt of classic salted potato chips of any brand. Transfer it to an open oven safe bowl. Sprinkle lots of chilli powder and mix it evenly. Toss it in a 375 F preheated oven. Bake for 10 min. You just want the surface oil on the chip to absorb the chilli powder, so that you don't feel like u r eating raw chilli powder :) Indian potato chips ready!!

Crispy chips from the scratch:

Slice potatoes into thin slices and soak them in a huge bowl of ice cold water for atleast 30 min. You can even leave it for 3 hrs... The excess starch should get into the cold water. Drain them and pat dry with a towel. Make sure there is no excess moisture. Deep fry. Add salt and chilli powder..toss it and chips is ready!!

You can follow the same recipe for sweet potatoes/ raw banana etc..

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