tea time snack, bhakarwadi

This is a Marathi dish.. I know, i m not great at handling such heavy projects... That day, i wanted to send some home made delicacies to a close relative of ours. I decide, i shall send something thats dry and does not mess up during the courier.

Instant thought in my mind was Bhakarwadi. I was sure she would not have even heard of it, let alone taste it. With no second thoughts in my mind, i took up the project by a small research of 10 minutes. Though i did not have the essential ingredient - poppy seeds, i still decided to make do with sesame seeds alone.

Here is the recipe.

All you need
1. Wheat flour - 1 cup
2. Gram flour (Besan) - 2 cups
3. Green chillies - 5 finely chopped
4. Ginger - 1 inch finely chopped
5. Fresh coriander - a handful finely chopped
6. Red chilly powder - 3 tsp
7. Coriander powder - 2 tsp
8. Cumin seeds - 3 tsp
9. Grated coconut - 1 cup
10. Sesame seeds - 100gms
11. Salt to taste
12. Sugar - 5 tsp
13. Oil for frying and making dough
14. Asafoetida - 2 pinch
15. Tamarind pulp - 1 tsp


Start with the dough.
Mix wheat and gram flour with 50ml of oil, 1 tsp of salt, a pinch of asafoetida. Use required amount of water, spoon by spoon, to ensure you finally end up with a very tough dough.
set aside and get back to making the filling for the dish.

Dry roast Grated coconut, sesame seeds, green chilly, ginger, fresh coriander and cumin seeds. Cool the mixture and blend them to a fine powder. Add red chilly powder, a pinch of asafoetida, salt needed, sugar, tamarind, coriander powder. This needs a very little water to make it into a paste that will not ooze out of the place where its stuffed.

Take a big enough chunk of dough and roll it to a pan cake shape, with a rolling pin, to an inch thick. Keep a hand full of the filling and try to roll the dough into a flute like shape, but very very tightly. Cut this flute into an inch thick pieces and deep fry them to golden brown in oil.
Dry the excess oil on a tissue and ready to go now....You can store in an air tight container and save it for a week's time!


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