Nimki/mathri /namak pare

• Servings:
• Preparation time: 10 minutes.
• Rolling & making shape time: 2 minutes(each)
• Frying time: 10 minutes(each batch).
• Total time: 22 minutes.

Holi is just around the corner! Come to Indian cooking manual, one of the Indian recipe blog! Enjoy the snacks “Nimki/mathari /namak pare”. It is served in our house on the festive occasion or tea time in the evening or I used to pack this for my sons, when he was in the collage. Nimki is my favorite snack. Homemade snacks taste better and are more hygienic than store. Now, you make for your little one, he too will like it.This is delicious snacks, store for weeks.

Ingredients:

• Maida: 500 gm.
• Rava/sooji: 2 tablespoon
• Salt: 1 tablespoon
• Baking soda: 1 pinch
•  Kalonji (Onion seed): half teaspoon
• Ajwain: 1 teaspoon
• Oil: for deep frying
• Oil: 150 ml (for moin that is put it into dough itself).

For making dough:

1. Take a wide vessel; pour Maida, rava, baking soda oil, onion seed, Ajwain and salt. Mix well by rubbing between palms.
2. Add water in small quantity and knead them, if required, put some more water, take care that the dough remains a bit hard, soft dough is not suitable for this dish (The dough can be made in food processor also)
3. Cover and Keep aside, to be used after half an hour

Method:

1. Divide dough into 4-5 parts and make balls; roll the ball in 10- 15 mm thick circle as in photo, cut this into rectangles shape with the help of knife.
2. Prepare all balls like this keep aside.
3. Take a deep fry pan, put oil and heat on medium low flame.
4. To check if oil is ready put a little piece of dough in the oil it comes up slowly.
5. Deep fry them in small quantity, on medium low heat; stir in between, fry it from both sides.
6. Fry till it becomes crispy and golden brown in colour( about 5-6 minutes).
7. Take it out on the paper napkin to remove Excess oil; let it cool completely, about half an hour.
8. It will become crispier.
9. Note: if it is fried on high heat, it will be soft. It will not be crispy.
10. Namakpare is ready; serve with hot tea or coffee.

Nimki/mathri /namak pare by Nag Ratna Sahu is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.