Pepper Karasev

Ingredients:

Besan - 1.5 cups
Rice flour - 1 cup
black pepper - 15 nos (adjust to your taste)
Oil (heat before adding) - 3 tbsp
Asafoetida - a pinch
salt - as needed
garlic pods - 3 nos

Grind black pepper and garlic pods (do not make it powder like...coarse grind it). Mix this with besan + rice flour + salt + asafoetida + hot oil. Oil can be replaced with softened butter. Mix water as required such that the dough is not too stiff.

Heat oil in a deep pan. Check the oil by dropping a lil dough to the oil. If it comes up immediately then the oil is at the right temperature. Then using the 3 circles thenkuzhal achu in the muruku presser make the karasev. Remove it from oil, once the sizzling stops. Break it to pieces once it cools down. Yummy and crunchy karasev is ready for diwali