Festive recipe: How to make Mathri

We'd asked you, dear readers, to share your favourite Diwali recipes.

Rediff reader Kavita Tanwar shows us how to prepare a crispy snack for the festive season.

This crunchy, scrumptious Punjabi snack is hard to resist.

Here's the recipe:

Mathri

Ingredients

• 1/2 kg maida
• 1/2 kg raw peanut, slightly ground
• 2 tbsp cumin seeds (jeera)
• 2 tbsp dry fenugreek leaves (kasuri methi)
• Oil for deep frying
• Salt as per taste
• Black pepper power as per taste

Method

• Knead all the dry ingredients -- maida, raw peanut, cumin seeds, dry fenugreek leaves -- together without adding water.
• While kneading, you will see the peanuts release oil. (It helps in binding maida).
• Leave the mixture for an hour so as the oil of peanut is absorbed properly.
• Roll out the dough into small and thin puris.
• Deep fry them. Keep them in a separate plate.
• Allow it to cool.
• Sprinkle some chaat masala powder on top and serve with garlic chutney.

*Lead image used for representational purposes only. Photograph: Rashmi Gupta/Flickr/Creative Commons

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