Namakpara -Savory Indian Tea Time Snack

Name: Namakpara -Savory Indian Tea Time Snack
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 cup Maida; 1/2 tsp Carom seeds or ajwain; 2 tbsp Rava or sooji; 1/4 cup Water; 2 tbsp Ghee; to taste Salt; For frying Oil

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Namakpara is an Indian traditional snack enjoyed with a cup of tea. Namak Para or Namak Pare are pastry like crunchy snack lightly seasoned with carom seeds. It is made in various shapes but mostly in long sticks. Earlier I made namakpara in a shape of cashews. I gave them the shape of Cashews (Kaju) with help of small round cookie cutter. This time I tried with another shapes – star, heart, flower. It is an easy snack. It can be made in a big batch and stored in airtight container for quite a long time.

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Ingredients

1 cupMaida
1/2 tspCarom seeds or ajwain
2 tbspRava or sooji
1/4 cupWater
2 tbspGhee
to tasteSalt
For fryingOil

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Steps

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Mix ghee and rava in 1 cup of flour. Rub well till all flour is coated with ghee. Add a little water at a time and form a stiff dough.
It needs to be stiffer than chapati dough. Rub a little Oil/Ghee on the dough ball, cover and allow to rest for an hour.
For making namakpara – Grease the rolling surface and the rolling pin. Roll out the dough into an around shape and it should be thicker than roti.
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Using a cookie cutter start pressing into the dough.
Separate the pieces and keep on making namakpara using a different cookie cutter.
Fry these in oil until they turn a golden colour.
Allow them to cool down completely and store in an airtight container.

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on November 21, 2018 19:23

Amsterdam

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