Ingredients:
- Maida: 4 cup
- Besan: 1 cup
- Kasuri methi (dry leaf): half cup
- Salt: 1 tablespoon
- Kalonji (Onion seed): half teaspoon
- Ajwain: 1 teaspoon
- Asafoetida: half teaspoon
- Black pepper: 20-25 no.
- Cumin: half teaspoon
- Oil: for deep frying
- Oil: ¾ cup (for moin that is put it into dough itself).
For making dough:
- Take a wide vessel; pour Maida, Besan, oil, onion seed, Ajwain, cumin, kasuri methi, asafoetida, black pepper and salt. Mix well by rubbing between palms.
- Add hot water in small quantity and knead them, if required, put some more water till the dough remains little harder than paratha.
- (The dough can be made in food processor also)
- Cover and Keep aside, to be used after half an hour
Preparation:
- Make small lemon size balls.
- Just press slightly with help of your palm, as photo.
- Prepare all balls like this, keep aside.
Method:
- Take a deep fry pan, put oil and heat on medium.
- To check if oil is ready put a little piece of dough in the oil it comes up slowly.
- Deep fry some quantity of mathari on medium low heat.
- Stir them in between, fry it from both sides.
- Fry till it becomes golden brown in colour.
- Take it out on the paper napkin, to absorb Excess oil.
- Let it cool completely, about half an hour.
- It will become crispier.
- Note: if it is fried on high heat, it will be soft. It will be not crispy.
- “Kasuri methi Mathari” is ready; serve with hot tea or coffee.
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- Kasuri methi mathari: teatime
- Kasuri methi is my favorite snack.
- Now, you make for your little one, he also likes it.
- This is delicious snacks store for months.
Kasuri methi mathari by Nag Ratna Sahu is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.