Omapodi | Sev Recipe

Omapodi | Sev Recipe with step by step pictures and instructions. Omapodi is crispy snack recipe flavoured with ajwain. It is one of the common recipes made during Diwali. We can skip ajwain and make plain sev. It is also used in chat items. During last year Diwali I tried omapodi and made it three times after that. This year made it for making mixture. I love to eat it as such as snack. Rice flour gives crispiness to the sev. You can use very fine or medium sized hole plate to make sev.
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Yields 250 grams
Omapodi is crispy snack recipe flavoured with ajwain. It is one of the common recipes made during Diwali.
20 minPrep Time
20 minCook Time
40 minTotal Time

Ingredients
- Besan flour/ kadalai maavu 1 cup
- Rice flour 1/4 cup
- Omam/ajwain/carom seeds 1 tsp
- Water 3 tbsp
- Hot oil/Butter 2 tbsp
- Turmeric powder 1/4 tsp optional
- Salt as required
Instructions
- Dry roast Omam until nice aroma comes.
- Cool it and transfer to mixer or hand mortar and powder it. It will be coarse.
- To this add 3 tbsp of water and keep it aside for 15 mins.
- After 15 mins drain the water and keep it ready.
- Sieve the besan flour, rice flour and turmeric powder along with salt.
- To this mixture add the drained ajwain extract and hot oil.
- Mix and knead to form dough. If required add little extra water to form dough.
- Heat oil in kadai
- Grease the sev press with oil. Use medium or fine sized hole plate and press the sev in circles like we make Idiyappam.
- Cook the sev in medium to low heat so it retains the nice yellow color flipping in between.
- Drain omapodi in kitchen tissue.
- Break the sev and store in airtight container.
Notes
You can add red chilli powder too if you are using for mixture. But I like to skip it even for mixture.
Dough should not be very firm. Otherwise it is difficult to press it.
You can skip ajwain and make plain sev
How to make Omapodi with step by step pictures
Dry roast Omam until nice aroma comes.
Cool it and transfer to mixer or hand mortar and powder it. It will be coarse.
To this add 3 tbsp of water and keep it aside for 15 mins.
After 15 mins drain the water and keep it ready.
Sieve the besan flour, rice flour and turmeric powder along with salt.
To this mixture add the drained ajwain extract and hot oil.
Mix and knead to form soft dough. If required add little extra water to form dough.
Heat oil in kadai. Grease the sev press with oil. Use medium or fine sized hole plate and press the sev in circles like we make Idiyappam.
Cook the sev in medium to low heat so it retains the nice yellow color flipping in between.
Drain omapodi in kitchen tissue.
Break the sev and store in airtight container.