Gatti Pakodi

Ingredients for Gatti Pakodi

Soaked dals: 1 spoon each Moong dal, Chana dal (soak for an hour)
Sesame seeds: 2 spoons
Salt: as per taste
Curry leaves
Cumin seeds: 1/2 spoon
Ginger Green Chilli Paste: 1 spoon
Maida: 1 cup
Rice flour: 3 cups

How to prepare Rice flour:

Wash and soak rice in enough water for 24 hours. Drain the water completely and spread it as a thin layer on a cotton cloth. Dry it in the shade till it’s almost dry yet slightly moist.
In a mixer grinder, add the rice and grind it to make a fine powder.
Sieve (Chalni) the ground rice powder and keep aside the left-over residue rice rava (coarse in texture) in a separate bowl.
Repeat the same with the rest of the rice in batches and collect the rice rava in the bowl & grind it again till it becomes flour.
Spread the fine rice flour on a newspaper and allow to dry completely. Store it in an airtight container.

Ingredients for Gatti Pakodi

Preparation of Gatti Pakodi

1. In a big mixing bowl add maida, rice flour, soaked dals, sesame seeds, salt, curry leaves, cumin seeds and ginger chilli paste and mix well.

2. Add sufficient amount of water to it and make a dough with it. Add 2-3 spoons of hot oil or butter to it and mix well.

Preparation of Gatti Pakodi dough

3. For deep fry, take a kadai, pour required amount of oil for fry and heat it in a medium flame.

4. Now time to prepare gatti pakodis out of the dough, apply little oil to hands and take the small portion of the dough and start preparing the gatti pakodi in the same manner shown in the video.

Place all the gatti pakodis on a plate.