It is one of the easiest snacks made from besan and rice flour. Again this a beginner’s recipe and takes less time for preparation.

Ingredients

Besan – 2 cups

Rice flour – 1 cup

Chilly powder – 2 tsp

Asafoetida -1/2 tsp

Butter – 1 tbl spoon

Table salt – 1 tsp

Oil – for deep frying

Procedure

-Mix the besan and rice flour along with chilly powder, asafoetida, salt and butter with water into a thick paste but a soft one.

-Heat oil in a kadai. Test how hot it is by dropping a pinch of dough into it – if it sinks, the oil hasn’t become hot enough. If the dough springs to the top with bubbles all around it, then the oil is just ready.

-In your murukku press, place the pakoda plate and load the dough and press it directly into the hot oil. Fry it untill it is golden brown and crispy.

Hot and spicy ribbon pakoda is ready.

You can made small alterations to bring different taste.

Instead of adding chilly powder alone you can add the extract of the following.

Red Chilly – 3 to 4
Fennel or sonuf – 1 tsp
Garlic – 4 flakes
Ginger – 1/2 inch (Grind these coarsely and take the juice from the mixture. Adjust the spices as per your taste)

To make the ribbon pakoda more crispy instead of instead of adding 2 cups of besan

add 1 cup of besan, 1 cup of pottukadalai mavu, 1 cup of rice flour.

Enjoy doing ribbon pakoda and post your comments.