Seepu Seedai is a traditional chettinad special snack. They used to make this snack often at their home. Seepu in tamil means Comb. This seedai has comb like design on it. These snacks look very crunchy and delicious.Must have the sweetness from the coconut milk. Seepu seedai is one of the best snack for us to celebrate diwali function.
Ingredients :
- Raw Rice - 1 cup
- Whole Urad Dal - 1/4 cup
- Fried Gram Dal - 1/8 cup
- Thick Coconut Milk - 1/2 cup
- Butter - 2 tsp
- Salt - to taste
- Oil - to deep fry
- Hot Water - as required
Method :
1. First rinse the raw rice twice, and soak it in water for 1 hour.
2. Drain water completely and then spread the raw rice in a soft towel and allow it to dry say for 30-45mins.
3. Grind it to a fine powder in a mixie in batches. Then sieve it. If you find small balls break and sieve it.
4. Fry roast urad dal till golden brown.Cool down and transfer urad dal to a mixer and grind it a fine powder
5. Take fried gram dal in a mixer.
6. Grind it to a fine powder and Sieve both the flours together, collect the sieved flour alone.
7. Heat coconut milk for a minute till it gets hot, don't boil just heat it up.
8. Take rice flour, urad dal flour and fried gram dal flour in a mixing bowl, add salt and butter mix well with your hands.
9. Add hot coconut milk little by little. Add hot water if coconut milk isn’t enough.
10. Form a smooth non sticky dough without any cracks.
11. Take your seepu seedai press. Now fill the murukku press with little dough.
12. Now start pressing them into long tapes then cut them into small strips on a big board
13. Join the ends of the strips around your forefinger to make like cylinders .
14. Heat oil, Now put seepu seedai's may be 6-7 at a time and fry till golden brown.
15. Drain in tissue paper.
16. Cool down then store in an airtight container.