Ribbon pakoda

I remember the days my grandmum would patiently make different knick-knacks for us and fill those huge steel dabbas that would last us for about three months :) Here is one of those much loved snacks ...

Ingredients :

• Rice Flour - 2 Cups
• Channa Dhal flour - 1.5 cups
• Dalia(pottu Kadalai) powdered - 1/2 cup
• Garlic pods - 4
• Whole red chillies - 6 to 7
• Hing - A pinch
• Salt - to taste
• Butter - 1 Tbsp
• Oil for deep frying

Method:

• Mix all the flours together with salt and hing
• Add the butter
• Grind the garlic and red chilly finely with water to make a paste (strain it , so that you don't have the seeds in the way)
• Add the strained water to the flour and bring them altogether as much as water is needed to make a dough (same consistency as chapathi dough)
• Now using the tubular press, you can start frying them in hot oil.
• Once they are fried, let the pakodas rest on a paper towel and then store in air tight container.