Uppu Seedai

Seedai is a South Indian snack prepared especially for Janmashtami or Diwalis. This is prepared with flour balls deeply fried in oil. Seedai is very tasty and spicy. Uppu seedai is one of the versions used in the Srijayanti or Janmashtami. In Tamil the word uppu means salt which describe the salty tasty of this particular seedai. Unlike this savory type, there is another version which is made up of jaggery and so called Vella seedai. It has sweet as well as spicy taste. 
Now lets make Uppu Seedai..

                                 Uppu Seedai recipe

Recipe Cuisine: Indian  |  Recipe Category: Snack
Prep Time:30 mins    |  Cook time: 10 mins     |  Serves:2

Ingredients

Rice flour - 1 cup

Urad dhall flour - 2tbsp

Salt - needed

Asafoetid - 2 pinches

Sesame seeds - white/black - 1tbsp

Ghee - 4 tbsp

Desicated coconut - 1.5 tbsp

Oil - for frying

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 Method:

• First You need to prepare the Rice flour.
• Steps : 
1.Soak the rice for at least 2 hours and drain the water, spread it in a clean cloth or news paper to absorb the excess water.
2.Grind it to a fine powder in a mixer.
3.Sieve the flour(you can add the remaining coarse rice to the next batch grinding). Dont rub and sieve. Do it gently. 
4.Fry the urad dal flour until nice aroma comes and then grind it. Seive it gently.




• Now Take a bowl add the rice flour, salt, urad dhall flour, asafoetida, descicated coconut, sesame seeds and mix well. Add meleted ghee and mix well. The flour will turn like bread crumbs. I have added white sesame seeds.
  
• Boil 1.5 cups water in a pan and when it boiling high add it to the flour and knead it into a smooth dough. Once the dough is ready, grease ur hands and split it into small gooseberry sized balls. Take a small size dough in ur hands and roll it into a ball between ur palm.
  
• Heat oil in a kadai for frying, and when the oil is hot add the balls slowly and fry tll they turn golden brown colour.
  
• Drain the fried seedai in a kitchen towel and place it in a box. Close the lid of the box when its warm.