Tandul Papad – Marathi Recipe

Instructions

• Take basamati rice and wash it with water 3-4 times.
• Add more than double the quantity of rice water in it and soak for 3 days.
• If you soak rice today at 8 am, then tomorrow at 8 am, drain all the water from rice, wash them well and soak again.
• Repeat the process on 3^rd day too. Soak again in enough water for the whole day.
• Drain all the water form rice. Take a strainer and place on a pot.
• Take out the rice into the strainer and let the water get drained for about 30 minutes.
• Spread a cotton cloth and transfer the rice on it.
• Spread the rice on the cloth and dry them over night.
• Next morning, transfer the rice and blend them into fine powder.
• Sieve the flour through rava strainer twice.
• The flour should fine. No coarse texture should be left in it.
• Add poppy seeds and salt to taste.
• Mix well and add a little water at a time to make water.
• The batter should be a bit runny.
• Boil water in a pot and take some cold water in a dish.
• Take a duradi too and needle.
• Take a dish and add spoonful mixture on its reverse side.
• Turn it round and round to spread the papdi batter evenly on it.
• Make medium size and a little thin papdi.
• Put the dish on boiling water pot. Cook papdi for about a minute until it dries up a little.
• Flip over the dish and cook from other side for a minute.
• Transfer the dish into cool water facing the papdi into water.
• Take out the dish and loosen the sides with the help of needle.
• Pick up the papdi carefully and transfer it on duradi.
• Repeat the procedure for all papdi.
• Transfer the papdi onto a plastic sheet for drying.
• You can skip the duradi step and transfer the papdi directly on cotton cloth or plastic sheet for drying.
• Dry under hot sun for 4-5 hours and flip over.
• Dry from other side as well.
• Papdi gets dried in 1-2 days. Papdi is already.