THATTAI RECIPE
Makes ~20 small thattai
Ingredients:
Rice flour – 4 cups
Urad dal – 1/2 cup, ground to fine powder
Chana dal – 2 tbsp (I didn’t use them since didn’t have any)
Butter – 1/3 cup
Red chilli powder – 1 tsp
Sesame seeds (ellu) – 2 tbsp
Curry leaves – a few, each cut into two
Salt – to taste
Water – about 1. 5 cups
Oil – for deep frying
How to Make Thattai
1. Mix all the ingredients and make a thick dough adding very little water at a time.
2. Divide and shape into marble-sized balls. Normally, the store bought ones are bigger but I made them small so that I can use less oil while frying.
3. Dampen fingers and gently the flatten the dough on a plastic sheet (I cut up the plastic bag in which I got the urad dal), to get a uniform disc of about 0.5cm thickness.
4. Prick the discs lightly with a fork (to prevent puffing up) and deep fry till golden brown.
Tastes awesome with some hot tea on Diwali, while chatting around the family coffee table with family 🙂
Thattai can be stored in an air tight container for upto a week. Just wait until completely cooled before storing it away.
Hi- I had a lot of problems with this recipe. The dough didn’t come together, but I put that down to using 1/2 cup urad flour not split then ground. Fair enough-I added some more water & ghee . but i was judging how big to make the balls by the yield number the recipe makes- was it 200 not 20? The discs were huge & rolled out to .5 cm seemed way too thick. 2mm seemed better. Anyhow, I made about 40 & decided to scrap the rest.k
I figure making the easy chocolate peda will restore my confidence!
sorry about this! this thattai recipe is very old and i need to remake and update it. hope the chocolate peda came out better!
these are my favourite nd when I made them they turned out perfectly … Thanks to you for the perfect recipe 🙂
that looks awesome Nags! never tasted it, but I bet it tastes wonderful! I too made Garlic Sev for Diwali:)
Wish you and your family a very Happy & prosperous Diwali girl! and this one's extra special for you:)D
well, I tried baking it. Ahhh, looks nothing like your beautiful creations. I tried to change it a little. In the end it was okay but I think I would want to fry it like you said the next time. I linked back to you as I think yours are wonderful looking!
that looks lovely .. very similar to nippattu from karnataka .. Hope U had a great Diwali