This is a fried snack my mom prefers to do for festivals, to pack for my brothers and for me when we leave to our hostels (during college days) and when we go on a long journey in holidays. Also great for an evening snacks. This is my modified version of the recipe whereas my mom soaks and grinds rice freshly in a wet grinder and add dall powder to it.
Ingredients:
Rice flour- 4 cups
Fried gram dall flour/ chutney dall flour – 1 cup
Gram dall- 1 cup
Butter- 2 tbsp (or) Heated and cooled canola oil- 2 tbsp
Dry chillies- 8 no
Garlic – 10 pods
Asfoetida- 1/4 tsp
Cumin seeds- 1 tsp (optional)
Sesame seeds- 1tsp (optional)
Salt – 2 tsp
Oil – sufficient to deep fry
Method:
Soak the gram dall in water for 1/2 hour.
Grind the dry chillies first in a blender. Add peeled garlic pods next and fried gram dall atlast. Measure this flour and for 1 cup of this flour add 4 cups of rice flour. Take them in a large bowl, add salt, asfoetida, cumin seeds, sesame seeds and drained chana/gram dall. Mix the dry ingredients with the butter without any crumbles, and add water slowly . Mix till you can make a ball out of it. The dough will be like chapathi dough except for the elasticity.
Heat the oil in a wide bottom kadai so you get the maximum surface area to do large batches of frying. Also ensure you heat good amount of oil .Whne you take smaller quantity, the oil gets heated up easily and regulating the temperature will be a tedious job by itself.
Back home, my mom gets help from her house maids when one fries and others do the pressing. They spread a Dhoti (veshti) on the floor and take a small ball of the dough and press it on the dhoti by greased hands to get a thin round disc. When a batch is ready , it is fried in oil, on the both sides, till it turns golden yellow color. They are then drained and cooled before packing in air tight containers.
Here in USA, I am a single woman army, so, I go for smaller batches of frying. I have no enough floor space in the kitchen and moreover my kids have no patience in seeing me work on the floor. So, I cut the edges of a few ziploc bags and pressed the dough in between the sheets. Since you do it like a sandwich, the thattais do not dry that fast and you need no oil for your hands.
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Delicious looking thattai. Thank you for linking mine. Yes the ziplog bags are great idea. It helps a lot.
They look so amazing. I love them. We often buy these snacks from store but never tried it at home. Now since i have the recipe i would give it a try. Thanxs so much for sharing .
-Sushma
wow..crispy crunchy thattai..one of my fav.diwali snack my mom makes..
Hi Lakshmi,
I never tried with garlic. Your Thattai looks crispy. Thanks for linking my version.
I love these.Thanks for the recipe and the list of other Thattais too.Heaven!:)
hi ammal
nice snacks.we call it as “pappu chekkalu”
Wow! garlic thattais. My husband will love these. Thanks for the idea
looks absolutely delicious… gr8 munchies for this cold winter
Nice recipe and presentation. Great snack with a hot cup of tea/coffee or if served with Dahi and Tamarind Chutney along with some spices. YUM!
Thats a nice snack recipe..would love to dunk this in some hot tea…
Trupti
Wow!!thattai look cripsy and tempting.I never tried with garlic,sure gonna try this.
Great! I love crispy snacks.
Tattai looks delicious. Have never tried it with garlic. Will try it next time. I too end up using ziploc bags
My MIL makes wonderful thatais.. but haven’t used garlic… they look very crispy. thanks
Thanks friends!
HI MT,Prema, Krithika,Usha ,
Do try with garlic, it gives fantastic flavor and taste!
Sushma,
Tell me the outcome if you try it!
Thattai and thattai and thattai -wish I cld eat more and more of it but I needto watch my weight too. Thanks for sharing this traditional recipe. Chitvish has given her recipe here:
http://www.indusladies.com/forums/2503-post7.html
Hi,
This is the first time Iam “Thatting your kadavu”, but wow…..I found my very very very very….and the list goes on…favourite Thattai murukku….I jus love it. My Ammi prepared for me sometimes, even I have tried but never the crispy version we get in shops…Would try this soon…insha Allah…
one ‘Chinna’ request, Iam a fan of Poondu Murukku too…I have had this only during my college days in Ramanathapuram. It would be great if you could post me the recipe…Thanks Ammal!!
Hi Lakshmi,
i want to try this recipe for sure.. i’ve had thattai with garlic only from shop so far! but i’Ve a doubt with the recipe. When you say grind the pottukadalai with garlic and dry red chillies you mean flour or the chutney dal itself. can i not just grind the garlic and chillies and mix with 1 cup of pottukadalai flour? it’s a bit confusing for me…pls. help! thanks, Lakshmi(ammal) 🙂
My mother used the traditional kerala towel (thortha mindu) for making thattais. That ensured the correct consistency that did not dry them and enabled easy peeling off the towel.
Try making with maida flour, add a pinch of powdered sugar to other ingredients, and it will be delicious southie version of north indian mathri 🙂
Hi Lakshmi,
I tried it and came out really good. Thanks to ur recipe.
This was one of most favourite recipes my mom used to make when I was small.
Especially the part of using a zip lock helped me prepare a batch of thattais faster then i cud have ever imagined.
I guess this method will be useful for couple of over other indian dishes like pillayar kolukattai.
My husband , kid and FIL all loved it.
Thanks.
hai lakshmiama..I didn’t get what gram dal/chutney dal means..Can u please tell me which dal is supposed to be soaked and which one to be fried?? did u mean pottu kadalai or chick peas???
Dear SaiRajini, I meant pottu kadalai only. Some call it as dahlia as well. Hope this helps, Thanks