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Oma podi recipe | Plain sev | Diwali snack recipes

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Omapodi-plain-sev
Oma podi is made with kadalai mavu (Chick pea flour/ besan) and rice flour and omam (Ajwain/ caraway seeds) as main ingredients. Some people make with just purely besan, but I make this way as I follow my MIL’s recipe. This is my family favorite snack,so made today as Deepavali snack! This is for my own reference and hope helps out who wants to try it out at home. This is so easy if you make the dough consistency right. You can choose the size of the sev / Oma podi as your need – super fine or medium fine. Both ways its delicious and kids would love this very much. We can use this same sev for chaat recipes too!

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Oma podi video

Oma podi recipe

Recipe Cuisine Indian    |    Recipe Category : Snacks
Prep Time: 15 mins    |  Cook time: 20 mins    |  Makes: 1 & 1/2 cups

Ingredients

Gram four/kadalai mavu – 1 cup

Rice flour – 1/2 cup

Butter(at room temperature) – 1 tblsp

Hot oil – 2-3 tblsp

Ajwain/Omam – 1/8 cup

Salt – As needed

Oil – for deep frying

Method:

  1. Dry roast omam,just till warm and powder it in the mixer.Then add 1/4 cup water and grind again .Filter this and keep aside. (You can wash, soak for an hour and grind too).
  2. Sieve gram flour and rice flour together and add salt,butter,hot oil and the omam extract and mix well.

    3. gram flour

  3. Then add water as needed(careful,needs very less) and mix well,form a sticky dough.dough
  4. Press through the ompodi/idiyappam press in heated oil(oil should be heated just right,i.e; if you add a pinch of dough it should raise up immediately,dont heat till oil fuming)
  5. Form a circle in the oil and make sure you don’t overlap.

    6. omapodi fry

  6. Turn carefully immediately and cook till the bubbles ceases(takes very less time,less than a minute)

    7. omapodi fried

  7. Drain in paper towel and repeat the process for rest of the dough.

    8. DSC_1281

Notes

  • If you find it difficult to press through, then sprinkle a little water to loosen the dough.
  • If the dough is getting dissolved in oil, then too much fat (butter & Oil) in the dough or excess water in the dough. Add more flour to trouble shoot.
  • I have updated the post with video, in that, I have used medium sized hole oma podi mold plate. 

Keep in an air tight container after cooling down,tastes best from the next day 🙂
Oma podi recipe

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  20. Wow, its good to discover your blog. All recipes are wonderful creation…Ompodi looks amazing !!I love it..My all time favorite always used to buy never tried!!now bookmarked it.Thanks for sharing..

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  44. wow, never really eaten this, but looks similar to the Gujju sev that we make:) thanks for the great attention to details!

    btw, I'm back to blogging after my motherhood break, and hope you can find some time to make some goodies for my Sweet celebration event

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  56. wowww! am seeing this just now..lovely oma podi raji!
    My murukku achchu has large wholes…when I make this,feeling like we are eating murukku.wish I had your oma podi press!:)

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  57. Hi …. Cing ur site from many days… today i tried this sev … this came out reallly wonderful… i'm very much happy… Thankq for these wonderful recipes.. will try some recipes of urs soon

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