What do you need
3 cup Besan/Chickpea flour2 & 1/2 tbsp oil
1 tsp red chili powder
1/2 tsp carom seeds,crushed
1/2 tsp cumin powder
1/4 tsp asafoetida (Hing)
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
salt to taste
Oil to deep fry
What you need to do
- Sieve the besan to avoid any lumps.
- Take 2 & 1/2 tbsp oil in large bowl.Add salt ,red chilli powder,carom seeds cumin powder,asafoetida, turmeric.
- Add 2 tbsp water in it and beat it vigorously with beater or spoon for few minutes It helps to make shev lighter and more crispy.
- Then add besan in above mixture and mix it well.
- Add sufficient amount of water and prepare a medium soft dough.
- Cover this dough with lid and allow to rest it for 10-15 minutes.
- After 10 minutes ,take a shev maker and grease little oil inside it.
- Wet palm with water and take some portion of dough in palm.Fill it properly in the shev maker and close the shev maker.
- Heat oil in a pan on medium flame.
- Prepare a shev directly in hot oil with Shev maker.
- Deep fry shev on medium flame till become crispy.
- When shev becomes crispy allow to drain oil and transfer it on kitchen paper.
- Deep fry all batches in same way.Crispy masala shev is ready.
- Allow to cool at room temperature and then store it in dry airtight container.
