Bakery and Cooking Classes: Poondu Kaarasev / Garlic Flavored Spicy Sev

Starting the final week of Blogging Marathon #93 with one ingredient in different ways,as theme.For the theme we need to choose a fruit,veggie or a flour as the ingredient.
Since Diwali is around the corner,I chose gram flour aka besan as my main ingredient to make some savories and sweet.

Kaarasev is a crispy and addictive snack made in number of ways with different proportions.I have already shared a version here.But this version is flavored with garlic and it is slightly on the spicier side.This version is popular in a sweet stall in my home town and I noted down the recipe from our family cook.

Poondu Kaarasev/Garlic Flavored Spicy Sev

Basic Information

Preparation time 15 minutes

Cooking time 30 minutes

Makes 350 gms(approximately)

Ingredients

Ingredient	Quantity
Gram flour/besan	1 cup
Rice flour/arisimaavu	1/2 cup
Red chilly/varamilagai	6-7
Garlic/poondu	-5 fat cloves
Cuminseeds/jeeragam	2 tsp
Salt	1 tsp
Water	to knead
Oil	for frying

Method

Grind the garlic and red chilly to a fine paste and keep it aside.
Heat the oil in a pan and take all the dry ingredients in a bowl.To this add 2 tbs of hot oil,ground paste and mix it well.Now to this sprinkle little water at a time and knead it to a soft dough.The dough should not be too thick,otherwise it will be difficult to squeeze in the oil.

Take the murukku press with the round blade(thenkuzhal achu),fill the dough.Squeeze it in the oil in a circular pattern and fry it for a minute.Now with the ladle break the bigger pieces to a smaller pieces for even frying.

Fry it till the sizzling sound ceases and the sev turned out nice and golden.Remove it from the oil and drain it on a paper towel.

Store it in an air tight container,after cooling.

Cover the dough with a plate to prevent drying.
If you feel hard to squeeze then sprinkle some water and mix the dough.
The color of the kaarasev will get deeper upon cooling and take it from the oil as soon as the sizzling sound ceases.
Instead of hot oil melted butter or ghee can also be used.
A tbs of cornflour is also added along with the flour.