Uppu seedai recipe
Crispy homemade seedai with detailed tips and tricks
Servings: 1 cup
Ingredients
- 1 cup Rice flour
- 1 tsp Urad dal flour
- 1 tbsp Coconut grated
- 1 tsp Sesame seeds
- ¼ tsp Cumin | jeera
- 1 tbsp Softened Butter
- Oil for deep frying
- Coconut oil few drops optional
- Salt as needed
Instructions
.For urad dal Flour:
- Dry roast 4 tbsp of urad dal in a pan
- Just roast till golden brown.
- When it is cool, make it a fine powder in a mixie.
Let's make seedai
- Roast the rice flour and urad dal flour in a dry pan on a low flame. Be careful not to change the color. Roast for 1-2 mins.
- Sieve this flour and roast it again.
- Repeat this process twice.
- In the pan add the sesame seeds and roast till slightly brown. roast the coconut also till golden brown.
- In a wide bowl add the roasted flour, butter, cumin seeds (if adding, no need to roast) roasted sesame seeds, coconut, and salt. Sprinkle water little by little and make it into a smooth soft pliable dough.
- The dough should not be too tight. Otherwise, the seedai will get cracked.
- Make it into small balls by greasing your hands with coconut oil and spreading them on a newspaper.
- Do not roll them too hard, Just gently roll them and do not overdo them.
- Heat oil in a pan for deep frying.
- When the becomes hot, keep the flame at medium-low.
- Throw the seedai balls into the oil.
- Fry till the oil sound subsides.
- Take out from the hot oil and drain in a kitchen towel.
- Repeat the same procedure for the rest of the seedais.
Notes
1. Always roast the flour and sieve them twice.
2. While adding cumin seeds, sesame seeds, and coconut check whether all the impurities are removed. Even a small stone or dust particle will make the seedai burst.
3. The seedai has to be fried on a medium-low flame, as this will make it cook them inside too.
4. You can use store-bought rice flour too.
5. Idiyapam flour will not work out well uppu seedais.
