- Slightly fry rice and besan flours in a kadai (vaanali in Tamil) with butter about 2 min. I use an iron vaanali (kadai) over medium heat. In a bowl big enough to make the dough, mix all flours with rge spices -- chilli powder, Asafoetida, sukku, ajwan, turmeric, pepper, cumin powders, baking soda, mix them. Salt to taste. Add ¼ c hot oil. This would make the sev crisp. Add water little by little to make the dough. Use your fingers for making the soft dough. Set aside for 30 min.
- Grease the inside of achu (murukku maker). Use the little plate with few holes, Fill up ¾ of it with the dough.. Grease the inside of achu (murukku maker). Use the little plate with few holes, Fill up ¾ of it with the dough.
- Heat oil in a kadai (vaanali in tamil) over high heat. Grease the inside of achu (murukku maker). Use the little plate with few holes, Fill up ¾ of it with the dough.. Here you have a choice. You can directly press the achu over hot oil to make the sev Alternatively, you can grease a jalladai Karandi (Tamil, it has holes for oil to drain. see the image). Make the sev over it, and then place it in oil. Sev will slide into the oil.
- As the thread like sev comes out of the achu, you can break it with your fingers or you can make just one big sev; later you can break You will see bubbles in oil while frying. After a couple of minutes, turn over. While frying, using the Karandi rotate sev inside the oil for even frying. When bubbles subside, SEV is ready to lift. The whole process may take about 5 minutes. Drain excess oil from SEV on a paper towel. Paper rowel will remove the excess oil from the surface of sev.
- Let THE SEV cool to room temperature. You can store deep fried crispy SEV in an air tight container at room temperature over a week or so. Enjoy the crispy savoury tasty with tea. tips: Please do not use refined oil. Peanut oil has high smoking point, good for deep frying. In addition it enhansStart with high flanees the taste and flavour. start with high flame, you may reduce the heat once you turn the sav, Break open the sev to check it is fried thoroughly. Adjust the frying time accordingly.
Homemade Sev which you can enjoy with your meal
Kara Sev
#myrecipe
By Sangeeta Saraf
May, 28th
587
Servings
3 persons
Cook Time
40 minutes
Ingredients
12
- 14
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp Butter
- 1 tsp coconut oil
- 2 tbsp Rice flour
- 1 tbsp black pepper, freshly ground
- 2 cups besan (chick pea) flour
- 1 tsp red chilli powder
- 1 pinch Asafoetida
- 1 tsp Sukku (dried ginger powder)
- 1 tsp cumin powder
- 1 tsp caraway seeds powder (ajwan)
- 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- as per taste Salt
- as needed Oil for frying Peanut oil
Instructions
Notes/Tips
Serve it whenever you want
