Vadappalu Sorakaya Tho

Karam Appalu Sorakaya Tho, Rice Flour Crackers with Bottle Gourd

This is a traditional dish of Telugu people, but with bottle gourd is

something new and tasty.

Ingredients :

Rice Flour 4 cups

Bottle Gourd 1 cup (grated finely)

Peanuts 1/2 cup

Sesame Seeds 1 tbsp (white)

Onion 1 small

Green Chilly 8

Curry Leaves 10

Cumin Seeds 1 tsp

Garlic Pods 10

Turmeric Powder 1/4 tsp

Salt to taste

Oil for deep fry

Preparation :

Peel the skin of bottle gourd and finely grate it, remove the ends of green

chilly and wash. Peel, wash and cut onion in to pieces, peel the skin of peanuts

and crush them slightly.

Blend green chilly, garlic pods, onion in to fine paste.

Now take rice flour in a wide vessel, add grated bottle gourd, green chilly paste,

crushed peanuts, sesame seeds, cumin seeds, curry leaves, turmeric powder

and salt according to taste, mix it perfectly (do not add water now).

Boil 1 cup water in a bowl, add this water to rice flour mixture and once

again mix it nicely.

Then add normal water very slowly, so that you will know the consistency,

mix it till you get tight dough (should not stick to hands). cover and keep

it a side for 15 Min's, then make small lemon size balls by applying oil to hands,

cover and keep them a side.

Now heat oil in a kadai for deep fry.

Spread page size silver foil on kitchen platform, apply oil on it and hands,

take one ball and press with hands like puri(very thin) and then fry in oil

until it becomes golden brown, take it out, and continue it for whole dough.

Or you can press it with puri presser, I have done it with puri presser only.

These can be preserved in air tighten container till one month.

Serve it with any chutneys.

Makes around 8-10 servings.

It takes more than 1 hour to prepare.

Suggestions :

Add more green chilly to get it spicy.

Instead of peanuts, chana dal can be used.

Mint leaves, onion leaves can be added.