Karasev

It's snack time!!We both like to have spicy snacks with tea than sweet ones and karasev is one of our favorite. The recipe here is from my mom..
Actually i planned to take video too but due to my kid's interruption that got dropped. i will update with a video next time. Here comes the recipe with my clicks...

Ingredients:

Raw rice	1 cup(about 300 gm)
Besan flour	equal to raw rice flour
Chilly powder	2 tspoon
Pepper powder(finely powdered)	2 tspoon
Asafoetida powder	1/2 tspoon
Salt	to taste
Water	3/4 cup +as needed
Oil	to deep fry
Salt	to taste

Preparation:

(1) Soak raw rice in water for about 2 hours. Drain the water completely (i drained the excess water in rice by spreading it over a newspaper as my mom used to do).

(2) Grind it in a mixer in 2 separate batches and make a fine powder without adding water.

(3) Take grinned raw rice flour in a vessel. Add besan and needed salt. Mix well. To this add chilly powder, pepper powder and asafoetida powder. Sprinkle water little by little and make smooth and stiff dough.

(4) You need a ladle to make karasev. Select the appropriate disc. Usually people prefer using large disc. But i like thin karasevs and so used the below one.

(5) Heat oil in a large pan. Fill the karasev maker with dough. Rotate the handle of the maker using hand by holding it above the oil. Rotate in clockwise direction. Make two or three circles. Deep fry in oil. Flip it once the air bubbles on top of oil reduces completely. Karasev will get ready in one or two minute.

(5) Keep it over a tissue paper to drain the oil. Store in an airtight container.

Enjoy with your hot tea/coffee...

Tips:

• Addition of besan flour is equal to raw rice flour. 1 cup of raw rice yields around 2.5 cups of rice flour. You can also use store bought rice flour.
• If you want karasev more crispy and red in color increase the amount of besan than raw rice. If you like it to be whitish add more raw rice. 
• The dough should be smooth. Add water little by little while mixing.
• While frying, air bubbles on top of oil reduces which indicates karasev is done.