SALT CHEEDAI

Ingredients -
- 2 Cups raw rice
-1/4 Cup urad dal
-1/4 Cup butter
- A pinch asafoetida
-2 table spoons of finely cut coconut
- Oil for deep frying
- Salt to taste
Cooking Instructions-
Soak rice in water for an hour and drain it.•Now spread it over a piece of cloth or paper.
After 2-3 hrs grind it in a mixie.
Fry the rice flour on low heat until brown. (You can use the packed rice floor to prepare the cheedai alternatively.
Sift through a coarse sieve so that there are no lumps.
Fry the urad dal until it is light brown and dry grind it in the mixie to a fine powder.
Mix it with the rice flour.
Add butter, asafoetida, and salt to taste.
Add water to make thick dough.
Make small balls of the dough and spread them on a wet towel.
Heat the oil and test fry one or two cheedai covering the oil partially with a lid because at times the dough splits miserably or even splutters.
Then fry remaining cheedai until golden colour.
Put 10-15 cheedai at a time in the oil.