By Niveditha Kalyanaraman
September 28th, 2023
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Uppu Seedai (salt Seedai) is a savory and crunchy snack, suitable for everyone from little kids to adults. Making it involves combining rice flour and urad dal flour with a blend of salt, hing (asafoetida), and butter. Here's the recipe for Uppu Seedai.
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1 cup Urad Dal Flour 1 cup Homemade Rice Flour 1 tbsp Butter at room temperature 1 tbsp Split Bengal Gram (Channa Dal / Kadalaparuppu) 2 tbsp Grated Coconut Salt As Needed ½ tsp Asafoetida (Asafetida / Hing) Oil for Deep Frying
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Soak the gram dal(channa dal) in water for 10 minutes. Pass the rice flour and urad dal flour through the sieve at least twice to make sure they are perfectly smooth. The ratio of rice flour to urad dal flour is 11:1.
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Take a bowl and add the flours along with butter, grated coconut, hing, salt and the soaked and drained gram dal and mix well with your hand so that all are nicely mixed up. Sprinkle water little by little and knead them into a smooth and stiff dough.
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Grease your fingers and palm with oil and take a small quantity of dough and roll it to a tiny ball. Do this for the rest of the dough. Allow the seedai dough balls in clean cloth for at least 5-10 minutes to dry.
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Heat oil in a pan. Check if the oil is hot enough and take the tiny dough balls in batches. Do not overload the oil with more seedai. Drop 20-30 balls at a time and deep fry them till they turn golden brown and crispy. Remove the crispy seedai from the pan and place it in a paper towel to drain excess oil. Your crunchy Uppu Seedai is ready!
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