cheedai

Ingredients
1. Rice Flour - 1 cup
2. Urad flour - 1 tsp
3. White sesame - 1 tsp
4. Jeera - 1 tsp
5. Butter
6. Salt to taste
7. Asafoetida - 1 tsp, mix it in water and use this water to make the dough

Method
1. Lightly warm the rice flour
2. Add the urad flour to the warm rice flour
3. Along with sesame seeds, jeera, butter and salt and mix it into a dough. The dough must be soft and malleable
4. Make small balls (about the size of small bubblegum).
5. Heat oil in a pan. You must see the fumes rise before you start adding the balls of cheedai
6. Serve as a snack!
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Sankarpaali

A tasty snack that can be made sweet or salty!
Ingredients
1. Maida - 1 cup
2. Salt to taste
3. Milk - half cup (optional)
4. Ghee/Butter/Oil - 2 tbsp
5. Oil to fry

Method de preparation
1. Mix maida, salt, milk(optional), ghee into a dough
2. Make small rounds like for chappati/roti
3. Using pizza cutter, cut them into small rhombus shaped pieces
4. Heat oil in a tava.
5. Deep fry and serve!

If you want to make them sweet, use sugar instead of salt. Additionally make some sugar syrup (boil water and sugar till it is brownish color) and mix shakar paali with the sugar syrup. This is supposed to be a dry snack.

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Thenkuzal

Ingredients:
Arisi Maavu (Rice Flour) : Ulutham maavu(Black Gram Flour) = 3:1
Jeera
Perungayam (asafeotida)
Salt to taste
Butter (vennai/naey)
Acchu (to make the template in maavu and them deep fry it in oil)
Oil (to deep fry)

Method de preparation:
1. Mix the two flours (arisi maavu and ulutham maavu) in the specified ratio
2. Add Jeera, asafoetida powder, salt and butter and mix it all into a thigh dough consistency
3. Make small balls and drop into the acchu. Make templates using the acchu on paper towels
4. Heat oil till you can see light fumes rising
5. Deep fry the templates and enjoy.

I will take pictures of these and post them the next time I make these Thenkuzal.
Bon App!

Spicy Peanuts

Ingredients
1. Peanuts or any nuts that pleases you - 100 gms
2. Chilli Powder - 2 tbsp
3. Curry Powder - 1 tbsp
4. Salt to taste

Method de preparation:
1. Shell the peanuts and microwave them for 10 mins
2. Rub them between your palms to remove the skin
3. Mix the chilli powder, curry powder, salt with some water. The consistency needs to be as light as for crepes(lighter than pancakes)
4. Mix the peanuts in them.
5. Microwave this mix. The amount of water added should evaporate on microwaving the mix.
6. Eat!as is or splutter some mustard seeds, curry leaves and add them or add them to Bhel (which is what my MIL does).