Recipe: at dinner Oma Podi

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Oma Podi. Crispy fried Gram flour noodles spiced with carom seeds is one of the popular SouthIndian snack. Kids might want to eat some crunchy and crispy snack during holidays or even they return back from their school. this is one of the kids favourite snack. we can make Omapodi quickly with the ingredients that are mostly available in any Indian Kitchen. 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!:) Reply.

Omapodi is an easy snack made during diwali.

My mom mostly make it to mix it with South Indian Mixture but in my in laws place they love to eat it as such too. and both my kiddos love to have omapodi.

Apart from mixing this in mixture this can be used in chaat recipes for garnishing too.

You can have Oma Podi using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Oma Podi

1. You need 3 cups of Besan flour / gram flour.

2. You need 1 cup of Raw rice flour.

3. It’s 3 tea spoons of Ajwain / Carom.

4. You need to taste of Salt.

5. You need 1 pinch of Turmeric powder.

6. You need 1/2 tea spoon of Red chilli powder.

7. It’s as required of Oil for deep frying.

Crispy extrudes made from besan flour & fried gram flour.

The tasty South Indian snack is popularly known as 'Sev'.·NO Maida·NO preservative·Gluten FREEIngredients : Rice flour, gram flour, sal, hing, turmeric, oil, curry leaves.

Oma Podi / Sev is a savory recipe, which is quick to make at home with rich aroma of Ajwain.

Also, chaats would be incomplete without these crispy Snack sprinkled on it.

Oma Podi step by step

1. Keep the ajwain in a tea filter and wash in the running water from a tap. It removes the dust if any. Now add the ajwain in a small jar of the blender with some water and grind to paste, Add some more water. Filter it in the filter. Keep the essence water aside..

2. Heat the oil in a pan..

3. Mean while in a broad pan add the flours, salt, chilli powder, the ajwain water and mix well. Add some water and knead to a tight dough like the poori dough. Take 2 table spoon of hot oil from the pan and add to the dough. MIx well..

4. Take an orange size of dough and put it in to the pressure. (Use the small hole plate).

5. Squeeze in to the oil. It will get fried very quickly..

6. Once the stuff is well fried take them out..

It makes a perfect recipe for a nice teatime too.:) These spiced fried "noodles" are made from Gram flour (goes by the name "besan" in Indian stores) with a little rice flour to make it crispy.

Its enjoyed all over India where its referred to as "Sev" in the North and "Oma podi" in the South.

The word "Oma" is in fact "Omam" referring to the essential spice (which is not used in the North Indian version) - Carom Seeds.

Oma Podi is the simplest thenkuzhal variety.

My mother and my aunts used to make oma podi and rawa ladoo the first thing for diwali.