Snack On Karnataka's Famous Nippattu

By Rittwik Naskar

Nippattu is crispy Karnataka-style crackers made with rice flour, maida, besan, and spices. A popular tea-time snack, here's how to make it at home.

2 cup rice flour ¼ cup maida, besan, grated coconut, and roasted peanuts ½ tsp cumin seeds, carom seeds, and red chilli powder 2 tsp whole chana dal 8-10 curry leaves, chopped 1 tsp salt 2 cup oil

Ingredients

In a dry spice grinder, add the roasted peanuts and grind them to a fine powder. Add it to a mixing bowl along with the rice flour, maida, besan, salt, and red chilli powder and mix well.

Step 1

Add the chopped curry leaves, grated coconut, chana dal, cumin, and carom seeds and incorporate them with the mixture.

Step 2

In a kadhai, add the oil and put it on medium heat. Add 2 tbsp of the hot oil to the flour mixture and mix it in with a spoon. Gradually add water to the flour mixture and knead it to make a stiff dough.

Step 3

Make plum-sized dough balls on a greased surface, and roll them out into small rounds. Pierce it with a fork so it doesn’t bubble up in the hot oil.

Step 4

Add the rolled-out dough in batches, into the hot oil and fry them till crisp and browned on the outside, and serve warm.

Step 5