தட்டை / Thattai / Nippattu

This is a popular and easy to do snack for "Krishna Jayanthi"...It can be served as tea time munchies too

Also look out for Chakodi / Ring Murukku recipe using the same ingredients

Ingredients

• Rice flour - 2 cups
• Roasted bengal gram flour / potukadalai maavu - 1/2 cup
• Turmeric - 1/2 teaspoon
• Chilly powder - 1 teaspoon or more
• Hing - little
• Sesame seeds /white ellu - 1 teaspoon
• Soaked channa dhal / kadalai parupu - handful
• Salt - 1 teaspoon
• Butter - 25 g / 4 tablespoons
• Coriander and curry leaves - little
• Water - as needed

Method

Step 1 - Making dough

• Melt butter in a sauce pan

• Take rice flour, roasted gram flour, ellu, hing, chilly powder and salt in a broad basin
• Add melted butter and chopped coriander / curry leaves to it.Put soaked channa dhal in it
• Add water little by little to form a smooth dough

Step 2 - Thattais

• Heat oil in a deep frying pan
• Spread a muslin cloth / zip lock cover on your counter top
• Take small lemon sized balls and flatted each of them into a thin disc using your greased palm

• Drop the flattened discs / nippattu into the heated oil carefully
• Fry well on both the sides / sizzling sound should subside
• Take it out carefully using a perforated ladle

Hot crispy thattais are ready.You can store upto one month in an air tight container