Ingredients:
Fried Gram - 1/2 cup
Fresh Coconut shavings - 3/4 cup
Green Chillies - 8 (adjust according to taste)
Curry Leaves - 15
Rice Flour - 3 cups
Soft Butter - 1/8 cup
Salt to taste
Warm Water - 1 cup
Oil for deep frying
Method:
- Blend fried gram into fine powder. Keep it aside.
- Shred green chillies and curry leaves. Keep aside.
- Blend coconut shavings into a smooth paste adding little water, about 1/8 cup of water. Keep aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, take fried gram powder, rice flour, salt and butter. Mix well.
- Now add coconut paste and shredded green chillies and curry leaves. Mix well.
- Add about 3/4 cup of water and mix it into a smooth dough. Keep adding remaining water little by little until you get a soft dough that can be easily turned into a small dough ball.
- Make marble sized balls of this dough.
- On a flat surface plate (or you can use your cleaned kitchen platform), place a dough ball and roll it using your palm to get a thin rope like structure. Do not apply too much pressure. Make sure it is evenly thick throughout.
- Pinch the two ends of the rope like dough structure.
- Bring the two ends together and press them together carefully to form a ring
- Repeat steps 8-10 with the remaining the dough balls. Or you can do in batches while a batch is getting fried in oil.
- Heat oil.
- Depending on the quantity of oil, drop a few prepared rings. Set the flame to medium-low and allow the rings to get fried. Stir occasionally.
- When the oil stops bubbling or has just a few bubbles, remove the fried rings from oil and place them on a kitchen tissue so that any excess oil gets absorbed.
- Serve once cooled or store in air tight, dry container.