SarvaPindi (Spicy Rice Flour Pancake) NAVRATRI SPECIAL

SarvaPindi is most popular snack in Telangana. Some of people called it as tapala attu or tapala chekka.

Ingredients:

• ¼ cup Sesame Seeds washed
• 2 tbsp. or little less than ¼ cup Roasted Peanuts soaked (5-10 minutes, until you finish the preparation)
• 1 cup or 165 – 170 grams Rice Flour
• 5 – 6 Green Chilies or ¾ tbsp. Green Chili Paste coarsely ground
• 1 tsp. Jeera(Cumin)
• 1 Garlic Clove (medium size.)
• ½ cup Onion finely chopped
• ½ cup (approx…) tightly packed chopped cilantro
• 5-6 Curry Leaves chopped or 1 tbsp. chopped curry leaves 
• 1 – 1 ¼ tsp. Salt
• 1/3 Water (You may need little less than that)
• 2 – 3 tbsp. / 6 – 9 tsp. Oil (2-3 tsp. per cake if you make 3 pancakes or 3- 4 ½ tsp. if making 2 pancakes)

Method:

• Wash Sesame seeds in warm Water.
• Soak the Roasted & split Peanuts in Water.
• Coarsely grind Green Chilies.
• Grind ¾ of the chopped Onion, Garlic, Jeera and Salt to fine paste.
• Chop the Herbs.
• In a bowl take Rice flour, add Chili & Onion  pastes. Mix until the pastes are nicely blended into the flour.
• Add remaining chopped Onions, Herbs, Sesame seeds, Peanuts and mix well. Taste the flour and adjust the seasoning. You can add little Chili powder if it is a not Spicy enough.
• Gradually add Water to make soft dough. The dough should be like Chapati Dough.
• Divide the Dough into 2 or 3 equal parts and make round balls. 
• take a  frying pan with 1 ½ – 2 tsp. Oil.  I used one non-stick & one hard anodized pan.
• Take one of the Dough balls and press it into a flat Cake in the pan. Use your fingers to press the Cake. Wet your hands if needed. Thinner the Cake. Using your index finger, make holes to the Cake.
• Sprinkle or lightly brush 1 tsp. Oil on the Pancake. Or you can pour little Oil in the holes.
• Put the pan on a medium flame, cover and cook it for 5 minutes.
• Remove the cover, reduce the flame to medium low and cook for 10 – 12 minutes or until the Cake is light golden brown in color. Move the pan around every 2-3 minutes for even cooking.
• Flip the Cake over and cook for another 2 ½ minutes.  cook it for another 2 1/2 minutes without flipping it. Remove from the pan.
• If you are using one pan, let the pan cool and repeat the same steps for the rest of the dough balls.
• It is usually faster to use 2 pans to speed up the process. Sarvapindi is usually cooked in a very wide pan with very liberal amount of Oil on very low flame.
• you can see this images below..
      







now its ready to serve hot...