Ribbon Pakoda

Ribbon pakoda is very simple to make and also a famous snack recipe for Diwali snacks.  This ribbon pakoda or ribbon murukku recipe needs rice flour, besan and milk spices like chilly and cumin.  

Ingredients :

1. Par Boiled rice - 4 cups
2. Red chillies- 12 nos
3. Cumin seeds - 2 tbsp
4. Garlic - 6 pods
5. Salt to taste
6. Gram flour - 2 cups (approximately)
7. Butter - 2 tbsp
8. Oil for deep frying

Method :

1.  Soak the rice for at least 4 hours.  

2.  Coarsely grind the red chillies, cumin seeds and garlic.  Keep the spice mix aside.

3.  In a wet grinder, add rice and coarsely grounded spice mix.  Grind them to smooth paste.  Add very little water.  Batter should be thick.

4.  In the batter, add gram flour, salt and butter.  Knead it as a dough.

5.  Heat oil for deep frying in the kadai.

6.  Add a portion of dough in the murukku press and make a round layer in hot oil.

7.  When it is done on one side flip this carefully to another side.

8.  When the sizzling sound subsides take it out from the oil and drain the excess oil in a kitchen towel.

9.  Repeat this for the remaining dough. 

Note :

1.  Proportion of gram flour, depends upon the consistency of the rice batter.  Add more gram flour, if the rice batter is thin.