Making of Omapodi

Making of Omapodi - Preparation time 25mins (If dry flour's available)

In many diwali snack dishes this is one of the healthy snack as we used to add ajwain(Bishop weed/omam) to make this recipe. Even for kids it will be soft to eat and digestible because of omam in it. This snack won't absorb more oil while cooking. Quick and easy to make deepawali  snack

Try 1:0.5 (Bengal gram flour:rice flour) ratio
Wash and soak the raw rice for 2 hrs and filter the water.
Grind the rice to fine powder. Seive the flour and remove the coarse powder. Grind the coarse powder and seive again.
Grind flour from bengal gram or buy bengal gram flour.

Ingredients:-
Ajwain(omam) - 1 tbsp
Salt - as required
Water - to grind the coconut
Oil - to deep fry

Preparation method:-
In a mixer add little gram flour and ajwain ground the flour till the ajwain becomes fine powder.
Using flour filter seive the flour so it won't be hard or get stuck while pressing the dough for omapodi
Mix both flour's along with diluted salt. Add water little by little and make a dough of chapthati flour consistency.
You can make little loose if you where not able to press the flour in the murukku making machine or dough pressing acchu.
Heat the oil and bring to medium or less flame.
Now using the omapodi achu insert the dough to press over the hot oil.
When the omapodi is done slight aroma will come and the bubble will get subsidized. (Take care else the the omapodi will be burnt it you keep for too long). Omapodi will take very less time to cook when compared to other murukku's.
Now crispy and tasty home made omapodi is ready to eat.
This is an easy to make and healthy snack.