Mathri

Hi everyone.  Back again after a break.  Today’s recipe is a tea time snack called ‘mathri’.  Which am sure everyone is aware of.  Made these after my sis-in-law gave me the recipe.  But I altered it with a few ingredients here and there.  So here goes my version of this yummy evening snack.  Oh!!! Did I say “evening”, you can pop them whenever you feel like munching on them.

INGREDIENTS:

Rice flour	1 tbsp (optional)
Maida	3 cups
Wheat flour	1 cup
Besan	1 cup
Oil	Just a little less than 1 cup
Kasuri methi	¼ cup
Chilli powder	1 heaped tsp
Turmeric	¼ tsp
Salt	2 tsp or as per taste
Sugar	½  tsp
Sesame seeds	1/8 cup

METHOD:

1.       Sieve the flours together and keep aside.             

2.     Mix together the kasuri methi, salt, sugar, turmeric powder, chilli powder and sesame seeds and oil.  Keep this for 15 mins.

3.    Mix together the kasuri methi mixture with the flour and knead with little water.  Around ½ to ¾ cup of water should do.  Knead this into a hard dough(like we make for puris)

4.     Cover and let the dough rest for half an hour.

5.  Make pedas out of the dough and roll them like we do for chappatis.

6.   You could use a katori to make round shapes, or use any cookie cutter to cut them into shapes.  (like the one I’ve used)

7.    Heat oil and slowly drop the mathri’s into the hot oil.  Fry them on low medium flame, till golden brown.  Drain them on a kitchen towel/tissue

8.     Let them cool.  Store them in and air tight container.  Stays fresh for a week.