Andhra style Thattai

     Who will say NO to this crunchy all time snack !! Definitely not my kids. Yes, she is a very big of all these types of crunchy-muncher. Whenever i prepare this at home, this will get emptied just like that. This is one of the best flavored thattai which was tempted me to try it at home. Somehow looted this recipe from google and now here comes for your reviews.

ALL YOU NEED:

Rice flour	2 cups
Green Chillies	4 Nos.
Ginger	2 inches
Butter	2 tblsp
Water	To mix
Oil	To deep fry
Salt	To taste

METHOD:
Grind ginger and green chillies in a blender. Now take a wide pan, sieve 2 cups of rice flour, butter, grounded mixture and required salt. Add some water until it reached the dough consistency. Heat oil in a frying pan. Meantime, make the dough as small round balls and Take a wet cloth or an oil greased plastic cover, flatten the balls one by one using fingers. Deep fry it in batches, until it turns golden brown.

Note: I used store-bought rice flour. For 2 cups i got 20 to 25 thattais.

Peanut Masala Chaat

     This is my favorute snack when i was working. Yes, during those peak hungry hours while returning home, there will a man who selling this hot, spicy and tangy peanuts chaat, which will always tickle my taste buds. So, with this short nostalgic memories, me tried this yummilicious evening snack during my tea time. Hope you will enjoy this.

ALL YOU NEED:

Cooked Peanuts	2 cups
Grated Carrot	1 No.
Chopped Onion	1/2 No.
Chopped mango	1/4 cup
Chopped coriander leaf	Some
Red chilly powder	1 spoon
Chaat Masala	1/2 spoon
Lemon Juice	1 tbsp
Salt	To Taste

METHOD:
     Take a wide bowl, add the cooked peanut, chopped onion, chopped tomato (which i forgot to add during my preparation), chopped mango, grated carrot, red chilly powder, chaat masala and salt. Mix well until the masala coats the peanuts. Once done, pour lemon juice and chopped coriander leaf, give a wuick stir. Serve it immediately.

-Sangeetha Nambi

Broccoli 65

     Nowadays, got bored of trying and even tasting broccoli stir fry. So decided to try a new dish using broccoli. Suddenly this idea flashed me, why not 65 with broccoli when its tried in cauliflower all the time. Hence this was excavated by my small brain. Here you go for the recipe.

ALL YOU NEED:

* Brocolli	1 Floret
Corn flour	2 spoons
Maida	1 spoon
Besan Flour	2 spoons
Kashmiri Chilly Powder	2 spoons
Salt	To taste
Oil	To deep fry

METHOD:
     Boil a pan of water, add the floret pieces and dip it into the hot water for a while. After 10 mins, drain the water completely. LEt it sit for another 5 mins. Take an another pan, mix all the items in "All you need" except oil and marinate with the floret pieces for 15 or 20 mins. Heat a frying pan by pouring required amount of oil and make a deep fry of the marinated broccoli in batches.

Note: I used medium sized broccoli which got around 10 pieces. Adjust the powder based on your broccoli size.

- Sangeetha Nambi

Channa Chaat

     Am a hige huge fan of chaat varieties. If its just a simple pori/puffed rice with raw onion and tomato, i can gobble it without sharing it anyone (Literally am mouthwatering here). This i learnt from one of my friend during our potluck day which she prepared for evening snack. I really loved it and grabbed the recipe from her.

ALL YOU NEED:

Chickepeas	2 cups
Chopped Onion	1 Nos.
Chopped Tomato	1 No.
Red Chilly Powder	1 1/2 spoon
Coriander Leaf	Few
Boiled Potato	1 No.
Amchur Powder	1/2 spoon
Garam Masala	Pinch
Cumin Powder	1 spoon
Salt	To Taste
Lemon	To Squeeze

METHOD:
     Soak channa for 6 hours and pressure cook it by adding water and pinch of salt for 3 whistles. Once pressure gets released, pour channa cooked water in the pan. Add red chilly powder, cumin powder, garam masala and amchoor powder, let it boil until raw smell goes off, now add cooked chall. Mix well with the masala evenly. Adjust with salt. Take a serving bowl, add a cup of masala channa, top it with chopped onion, chopped tomato, chopped coriander leaf, chopped boiled potato, besan sev/omapodi and squeeze some lemon. Gobble it with hot tea.

Note: You can also add Tamarind and Green Chutney if you like it.

- Sangeetha Nambi

Tapioca Chips/Kuchi Chips

     I should say this is my nostalgic recipe. Hopefully for most of them. Fine, Today is going to a snack dish which always recollect my school days. Its my all time favorite, delicious, tasty, best tea time muncher with all the best adjectives in the world and the dish is Home made Tapioca chips. Wait ! Wait !! Its sound so dramatic to me, i would always love to call its as “Kuchi Chips”(Stick Chips) that too homemade. OMG ! Without any further delay, lets move on to the method.

ALL YOU NEED:

Tapioca	Medium size
Red Chilly Powder	1 spoon
Salt	To Taste
Oil	To Deep fry

METHOD:
     Soak tapioca in water for 2 hours in water. Once done, peel the skin and make julienne cuts and let it dry for 30 mins. After 30 mins, heat oil in a pan for deep frying, when the oil is hot, add the tapioca juliennes in batches. Keep frying it in medium-high flame until its turns mild golden color. Transfer it to a bowl with tissue paper. Keep repeating the process for the left overs. Once you all done frying, add a spoon of chilly powder and salt. Mix evenly and here comes my favorite Kuchi chips/Tapioca chips.

- Sangeetha Nambi

Paneer Pinwheel

"Paneer Pinwheel" I tasted this recipe an year's back during our potluck get together. From that day on, was so eager to try this at home. So waited for the "THE DAY" to try this at home. So, there comes my daughter's first birthday party. Hence tried it finally and the output was really yummy !

ALL YOU NEED:

Puff Pastry sheet	1 sheet
Grated Paneer	3 cups
Turmeric Powder	Pinch
Chilly Powder	1 1/2 sp.
Fennel Seeds	1/2 spoon
Cumin Powder	1 spoon
Garam Masala	1 spoon
Coriander Leaf	1/4 cup
Salt	To Taste
Oil	1 tbsp

METHOD:
     Before starting the preparation. Take out the puff pastry sheet from the fridge and let it sit for 40 minutes. Crumble the paneer and all all the dry powders like chilly powder, turmeric powder, Cumin powder, garam masala powder, fennel seeds, required salt and some chopped coriander leaf. Mix well until it all get mixed evenly. Now heat a spoon of oil in a pan, add paneer mixture and saute it for 2 to 3 mins and put off the flame.

ROLLING:
     Lets start the rolling part, dust some maida on a flat surface. Take a puff pastry and roll it gently (not very thin). Now add the paneer filling and gently roll the pin across just once. Once done, roll the pastry sheet. Once it reaches the edges, apply some water to the edges and press it firmly,make sure the edges are joined to the roll. Grease a sharp knife with oil. Cut the both sides of the roll which will be irregular. Now cut further to get the pinwheels.

BAKING:
     Makesure you preheat the oven to 350 F before you starts the rolling process. Take a grill plates or oven tray, cover it with aluminium foil and grease it with oil. Arrange the round shaped pinwheels with some gaps inbetween two pinwheels. Spary some oil on top of each pinwheels. Place it in the oven and bake for 15 mins, until it turns into golden brown. Once done, take out and let it cool down for sometime. Transfer it and Serve hot with tomato ketchup ! Yum !!!

Note: You can also add Amchoor powder and chaat powder to enhance the taste.