Appalu
Chef Satish Kumar, Sheraton Hyderabad Hotel
Ingredients
100 gm rice flour
75 gm jaggery
5 gm ghee
3 gm cardamom powder
150 ml refined oil
Method
Melt ghee and let it cool down to room temperature. Meanwhile, mix jaggery with water and set aside. In a bowl, mix rice flour, sugar and ghee and combine that with the jaggery water.
Divide in equal portions and make flat discs out of it. Deep fry till they turn light brown in colour.
Gulabi Puvvulu
Ingredients
100 gm rice flour
80 gm maida
75 gm sugar
5 gm salt
150 ml refined oil
1 egg
Puvvulu mould
Method
Blend all the ingredients for a few minutes till you get a smooth and thick batter (consistency of dosa batter). Pour it into a bowl and let it rest. Meanwhile, heat oil in a wide kadai. Once the oil is hot enough, dip the mould into it for a minute or two. Make sure that the oil is hot, otherwise the batter won’t stick to the mould. Once that is done, dip the hot mould into the batter in such a way that only 80 per cent of the mould is covered with the batter. This is important so that the murukku easily comes off the mould. Now, work quickly. Gently dip the mould (covered in batter) inside the hot oil. After a few seconds, shake the mould gently to release the puvvulu. Let it fry until both sides are golden brown. In the meantime, leave the mould in the hot oil so that it is ready for the next murukku.
Sakinalu
Chef Sanjay Thumma,YouTube chef
Ingredients
1 cup of new rice
1 tsp of carom seeds
¼ cup of sesame seeds
Salt to taste
Oil to fry
Method
Soak the rice overnight in water. Next morning strain the water and blend the rice into a fine powder. Now, mix the rice flour with carom seeds, sesame seeds and salt. Then, slowly add water to the mixture, but make sure that the dough doesn’t get too sticky. It needs to be of the right consistency. Now, take a clean cotton cloth and spread it out. Then take a piece of the dough in your hand, it shouldn’t be sticky. Now, with your hand pipe the dough into circles. Rest this for 15 minutes so that it dries a little bit. Then, deep fry these in hot oil until golden.
