The word Mathari is pronounced as Math-ri or mat-thi. It is one of my favourite snack and I can live on it all day :)
Ingredients
- 250 gm. plain white flour or all purpose flour/m
aida (you can use chapatti flour too)
- 200-250 gm. clarified butter or ghee or cooking oil
- little Water to make dough
- Oil for deep frying
- 50 gm coarse sooji/semolina to make it crunchy
- 1 t sp ajwain/carom seeds
- Salt for taste
Directions:
- Mix Flour, Salt, sooji/semoline and ajwain seeds in bowl.
- Add ghee or butter. Try to mix it well. If its flaky, it will be more tasty. Ideally Dough should be Kneaded with little water if possible.
- Add water if required. Make sure dough should be tough.
- You can do above steps in food processor too.
- Cover dough with moist cloth for minimum 10 minutes and maximum 30 minutes.
- Break dough into a 2 cm balls and roll them on flat surface in round shape bigger than coin about 5 cm and thick abt 0.5 cm.
- Prick each pieces with fork few times
- Heat oil in Deep pan and when it is smoky hot fry few pieces at a time on low heat. You can check if oil is ready or not by dropping tiny piece of dough.
- fry until light brown and crispy.
Enjoy it with Hot Tea of Coffee
