Kodubale

This is the Recipe given by my sister-in-law Usha (through e-mail from Canada!) She has made slight modifications(simplified) in her mother's(my mother-in-law's) recipe of Kodubale which were the best we have eaten so far!

Thanks Usha!

Ingredients:

1. 2 1/4 cup of Akki Hittu (Rice flour)
2. 1/2 cup Chiroti Rava (fine semolina)
3. 1/2 cup Maida (Super-refined flour)
4. 1 cup grated Dry Coconut
5. 1/4 cup + 1/8 cup oil
6. 4 tsp chilly powder*
7. A pinch of hing
8. Salt as per taste*
9. Oil for deep frying

*You can increase the chilly powder for more spiciness and add salt to your taste.

Method:

1. Roast the Chiroti Rava slightly just till it becomes a little warm
2. Roast the maida till it gets hot.
3. Grind coconut in a blender without adding water to make it a fine powder. Keep aside.
4. Take a wide bottom vessel and mix the first three ingredients well.
5. Make a well in the middle and add chilly powder and hing.
6. Simultaneously heat the oil and pour it over the chilli powder. Then mix it all together.
7. Next add salt and grated coconut to this and mix it all very well.
8. Add water according to your judgement to make the dough. Knead well.
9. Make small balls from the dough and roll them into tubes of desired size with your hands.
10. Moist your fingers and join one end to middle to form a spiral.
11. Heat oil in a kadai/wok.
12. Drop the kodubales into the oil and fry on low-medium heat and not HOT so that it fries evenly.
13. They will be done when they turn medium brownish-red in color.
14. Remove from oil and drain on paper tissues.
15. After they cool down completely, store in air-tight containers.

Bon Appétit!