Ingredients
Rice flour 2 cups
Urad Dal flour ¼ cup
Sesame seeds
Curry leaves
Chenna dal
Salt
Red Chilli powder
Asafoetida
Oil
Get Cooking!
1. Mix in the rice flour and urad dal flour.
2. Soak the chenna dal in some warm water for a while till it gets soft and drain away the water
3. Add the salt, red chilli powder, asafoetida, sesame seeds, soaked chenna dal, curry leaves to the flour.
4. Pour in some water little by little to the flour to make the dough such that it is not too water nor too powdery.
5. To make the thattai, grease a banana leaf (or an aluminium foil / thick plastic sheet). Take some dough and flatten it out into circles on the sheet/ leaf. Take care while taking them off to fry them
6. Heat oil in a wok. If you put in a pinch of dough in, it should float back to the surface. This means that the oil is ready for frying the thattai.
7. Put in the thattai carefully into the oil. Fry them flipping them such that they are golden brown on either side on medium heat.
8. Take the fried thattai out and place on a tissue paper to drain out the excess oil.
Tips
You could add a little butter/hot oil while making the dough. You could also add some pepper powder which will increase the spice level in the thattai

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