Friday, February 4, 2011

Chatpatti Mathri


If you have the time and the urge this weekend to try out something in the kitchen, which can with 30 minutes of effort give you a tasty in-between meal snack for a couple of weeks,try today's recipe of Chatpatti Mathri, a light snack that goes well with a cup of tea, coffee, a cold beverage and tasty great by itself or accompanied with pickle, chutney or yoghurt.
Ingredients:

• 2 cups refined flour (Maida)
• 2 heaped tbsps. Pure ghee
• 1tsp cumin seed (jeera)
• 1tsp thyme (ajwain)
• Salt and pepper to taste
• Oil for frying

Procedure:
Heat ghee and add to the flour. Put all spices into the flour. Knead into chapatti like dough with water. Make small balls like for puris. Roll out each ball into a thick puri. Pierce each puri at several places with a fork / knife. Heat oil in kadai. When hot add one puri at a time. Fry on slow turning sides till golden brown. Don’t allow the puri to swell up. Cool and store in air tight jar. Serve with pickle, chutney and tea / coffee.

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