Vijaya's Cookbook

1 cup maida 1 cup wheat flour 1 tsp chili powder 1/2 tsp hing powder 1 tsp sugar Salt to taste 2 tbsp of ghee Water to bind the dough In a bowl take all the dry ingredients.Heat the ghee and add it to the dry ingredients.Mix it well .Now add water little at a time and knead to make a medium stiff dough.Keep it covered for 20 minutes.Make balls of the dough .Roll out each ball into a thin roti .With a cutter or knife cut into diamond shapes.Fry in hot oil till crisp.

Take 2 cups of besan .Sieve it .add a small blob of butter, hing and salt to taste.To this add 2 tbsp of hot oil, mix well and then add water to make a soft dough like chapathi dough.Put the dough in the sev mould and press it directly into hot oil. Fry on both sides till crisp. Recipe Courtesy jaya v shenoys cookbook

Take abt 1 cup of besan ,add some chili pd,salt ,little turmeric and a pinch of soda.To this add water little at a time and make a dough which is semi thick like dosa batter.Heat oil in a kadai when hot pour the batter on to a perforated spoon or zara( used to make Boondi)and slowly tap the edges so that boondis fall evenly into the oil.fry till crisp .Add some fried Curry leaves and cashewnuts and mix well

1 cup rice flour,1/4 cup of groundnuts,1/4 cup fried gram( both coarsely powdered ),finely chopped curry leaves,green chillies,1tsp butter,salt.mix all together and make a dough like chapathi dough.make small balls of this dough.take 2 plastic sheets.grease with oil ,keep the balls and flatten them into small rounds.Deep fry in hot oil till golden brown .