Crunchy and Crispy Mathri (Salted Crackers) Recipe
Mathri is a traditional tea time snack prepared with semolina, ajwain, and asafoetida. It is a popular festival recipe. This snack has a crispy yet flaky texture that is extremely crunchy and quite delicious.
Ingredients
- 2 cupsAll Purpose flour (plain flour or maida)
- 1/2 cupsooji (semolina flour)
- 1 teaspoonsalt
- 1/2 teaspoonajwain
- 4 tablespoonsoil
- 3/4 cuplukewarm water (use as needed)
- Oilto fry
Directions
- In a bowl add flour, semolina, salt, ajwain, and oil and mix it nicely.
- Add the water little at a time and knead into a firm dough.
- Cover the dough and set it aside for 15 minutes or more.
- Divide the dough into equal parts and take each part of the dough and make a flat ball shape and roll them into 2 inch circles.
- Prick each Mathri with a fork in 5 to 6 places, so the mathris do not puff when they are fried.
- Heat the oil in a frying pan on medium flame and see that the frying pan should have at least 1 1/2 inch of oil.
- To check if the oil is ready, put a small piece of dough in the oil and the dough should make the oil sizzle and come up slowly.
- Fry a few mathris at a time and make sure to place just enough mathris to cover the frying oil.
- Fry the mathris until both sides are a light golden-brown.
Notes:
- Mathris can be stored for a couple of months in airtight containers.
- If the mathris are cooked on high flame, they will be soft.
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