Kara Boondi

Ingredients:

• 2 sp rice flour
• 2 cup besan
• a pinch asafoetida
• 1/4 cups cashew nuts (broken)
• curry leaves
• 2 sp red chilly powder
• Salt to taste
• Oil to fry.

Method:

• Mix all the ingredients well and make thin batter, but some what like dosa dough.
• Heat oil in a pan. Take Boondi laddle and hold the handle on your left hand
• and take a spoon full of dough on your right hand. Hold it on the hot oil, now
• pour the dough on the boondi laddle and rub it very fast through the holes
• with the bottom of the spoon. The disc must be held close to the pan.
• The batter must fed quickly into the oil. Cook boondi till they become fine
• gold colour.
• Remove and put them in a big vessel.
• Fry cashew nuts and curry leaves.
• Add with Kara Boondi. Mix well. If you want more spicy add salt and red chilly
• powder and mix again.
• To check the crispness, just crush one boondi and see. If it is crushing, it is
• good.

Notes:

• Instead of adding chilly powder in the batter, you can add seperately.
• You can add crushed or powdered black pepper instead of red chilly powder.