Aloo bhujia | Potato sev | Urulai kizhangu oma podi-How to make-Step by step photos

Cuisine Style: TamilNadu, south India | Preparation & Cooking Time: 10 minutes | To Serve: 2 | Take with: Curd rice, tea, coffee | Type: Easy diwali snacks or crisps

This is simple and instant super crispy sev[Oma podi in tamil].

Perfect evening snack goes well with tea, coffee, curd rice, chaat recipes & raita.

Its one of the no stress snack for diwali, pongal or any festivals.

You can add any spice powders for different flavour.

For sweet version skip spice powders, make sugar syrup then add fried aloo bhujia

For colour variations you can add beetroot juice for pink and red colour, spinach for green colour, purple for red cabbage, black/brown using cocoa powder.

You can add carom seeds/Ajwain water for different flavour.

Super crispy instant aloo bhujia

Ingredients

• Potato - 1
• Gram flour[Besan, Kadalai Maavu] – 1 cup
• Turmeric powder – ¼ tsp
• Red chilli powder –1 tsp
• Asafoetida– 1 tsp
• Oil – 1 tbsp
• Salt to taste
• Water as needed
• Oil – for deep frying

Preparation Method

• Peel off and wash potato then cook till soft
• Let it cool & finely grate
• In a bowl add grated potato, gram flour, turmeric powder, red chilli powder, asafoetida, salt, & water mix well & make soft dough.
• Add oil over the dough then again knead it.
• Heat enough oil in a pan then fill prepared dough in a sev mold muruku kuzhal [one handful] & just press or squeeze over the oil & deep fry till crispy on medium hot oil.
• Once it ready or the oil sound disappears then take it out.
• Leave it for room temperature [Apr. 2 min]
• Then keep it in an airtight container use within 15 days.

How to make Aloo bhujia-Step by step photos

Boil 1 potato till soft

Now its ready, cut off heat

Finely grate

Grated potato ready

Add red chilli powder, turmeric powder

Add salt

Add gram flour

Mix well, make smooth dough [Add water if required]

Soft dough is ready

Take sev mold

Add aloo gram flour dough

Close it and squeeze. Now you can see the raw aloo bhujia shape

Heat oil, squeeze over the oil

Deep fry till crisp

Deep fry on medium flame

Flip over fry both sides

Fry for a min

Now its ready, remove it from oil

Let it cool, store in an airtight container, use within 1 week

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