A snack dish made with Besan and rice flour sprinkled with Ajwain (omam) and hence the name.
Omapodi
Course: SnacksCuisine: IndianDifficulty: MediumServings
6
servingsPrep time
10
minutesCooking time
20
minutesA snack dish made with Besan and rice flour sprinkled with Ajwain (omam) and hence the name.
Ingredients
Besan flour – 2 cups
Rice flour – 1/2 cup
Butter – 2 teaspoons
Omam (Ajwain) – 2 teaspoons
Red Chilli powder – 1/2 teaspoon (optional)
Asafotida powder – 2 pinches
Salt – 2 teaspoon or as per taste
Oil – for frying
Directions
- To get Omam flavour, we can follow any one of the following methods:
- Soak omam in hot water for about one hour. Strain the water.
- Or Grind the soaked omam to a paste and strain it.
- OR boil Omam and cool it. Then strain the water.
- Or You can also dry fry Omam and grind it to a fine powder.
- Recipe
- Sieve both besan and rice flour. Put it in a broad vessel. Add butter, red chilli powder, asafotida powder and salt and mix by hand. Add the omam water little by little and mix well. Add required water and make a soft pliable dough.
- Heat oil in a thick bottomed kadai.
- Take small quantity of dough and put it in the Murukku Press with an omapodi plate with small holes and squeeze it in circular motion directly to the hot oil. Fry till it becomes crispy and nice golden yellow. But ensure not to brown. Take out from oil and store it in a airtight container.
Notes
- Heat the oil in the kadai and simultaneously start making the dough, so that as soon as you knead the dough, the oil will be hot and immediately you can start making the omapodi. If you keep the dough for long time, omapodi will become red. If you are preparing large quantity, you can mix only a small portion of flours and make the dough.
- For the above quantity, you will get 6 to 8 big murukkus (approx 1 big bowl of omapodi).
Today i have tried your omapodi. Taste is very good. The grinding omam is good idea. I have tried with only one cup and got 5 medium size rounds.
Thanks for sharing this recipe with us.
Thank you Chidambari for your kind feed back.
The omapodi turned great…. Thanks a lot for the recipe:)
Thank you Tamilselvi for the feed back.
can i add more chilli powder to make it spicy? will it taste good?
You can add more chilli powder to make it spicy. However, it will override the omam flavour.
Hi Kamala,
Can use please give the receipe for mullumurruku made the traditional way? Thanks
Lata
Hi Lata Ram,
Mullu Murukku is normally prepared with rice, bengal gram dhal and green gram dhal. Ratio is 4:1 rice flour and dhal powders. For quick spicy version check my recipehttp://www.kamalascorner.com/2011/01/mullu-murukku.html
Hello Kamala,
Instead of soaking omum in water and grinding, I am always frying it for 2 miniuts in kadai and grind in the mixi, then put the powder with flours. This is my moms method.I think we can get the omum powder instantly.
Thank u for receipes.
Yes. Omam powder is available in the shops and we can add it too. Soaking the omam and use the water will make the flavour mild.
What is besan?
I know this is against the name omapodi but can i skip omam n add something like jeera powder, it’s just that i dont have stock. Will it taste ok?
Yes. You can use jeera powder. In that case add little3 red chilli powder along with jeera powder to get spicy taste.
Thank u 🙂