Pappu Billalu | Chekkalu ~ Andhra Snack
Pappu Billalu is a delicious deep-fried snack from Andhra. These snacks are made from rice flour along with other ingredients and deep-fried as flatten discs.
Servings 20 small
Ingredients
- 3 cup Rice Flour homemade
- 1 cup Roasted Urad Flour (powdered from roasting 3/4 cup Whole Urad Dal)
- 2 tbsp Groundnut Coarsely powdered
- 2 tsp Chana Dal soaked
- 4 to 5 Dry Red Chilies roasted and powdered
- 1 tsp Cumin Seeds
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 2 tsp Butter
- Curry Leaves handful
- Cooking Oil for deep frying
Instructions
- Soak Channa dal for 30 mins in water.
- Coarsely powder the roasted peanuts. Keep it aside.
- Wash and drain handful of curry leaves
- Dry roast the dry red chilies and let it cool.
- In the same pan, dry roast the whole urad dal till it becomes slightly brown in colour. Allow it to cool, then take the dry chillies and grind to a powder, then add the urad dal and powder again.
- In a wide bowl, take the homemade rice flour, powdered urad dal, powdered peanut, drained chana dal, slightly crushed cumin seeds, salt, and butter. Combine everything well and slowly add water to knead to a soft, yet stiff dough.
- Divide into small balls, on a greased sheet, pat it down as discs.
- Heat a kadai with oil, when it is hot, slide in the discs and cook on both sides.
- Drain on kitchen towel
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