Besan Sev Recipe
Sev is very quick and easy to make at home and it is very crispy and spicy snack. It is made from Besan and other spices. We can store sev for long time. For Make the sev, we use the sev maker (seviya machine). It has many different shape disc but we use tiny small holes disc. Sev can be top up many chaat recipe as bhel, bhel puri, ragda puri, pani puri, khasta kachori etc.
Ingredient:
- Gram flour(besan) - 2 cups
- Oil - 1 tsp for dough
- Salt - to taste
- Red Chilli Powder - 1/2 tsp
- Asafeotida (hing) - a pinch
- Black pepper powder - 1/4 tsp
- Ajwain(carom seeds) - 1 tsp
- Clove - 7 -8 crushed
- Warm water - for kneading
- Oil - for deep frying sev
Method:
- Sieve the gram flour in a big mixing bowl and add turmeric powder, red chili powder, ajwain, black pepper, oil, crushed cloves, asafeotida and salt and mix well.
- Add little bit of water slowly to knead into a soft and smooth dough.
- The dough should be softer than chapati dough.
- Cover the dough and leave the dough aside for 20 minute.
- Heat the oil in a pan and till than take a sev maker and use a small hole disc if you want to thick or thin size sev than you adjust the disc according sev size.
- Grease the oil inside of sev maker and fill half with the dough and close its lid tightly.
- Keep the machine over the pan. turn handle of machine and press out all of the sev into hot oil and thin sev will come out and slowly move the maker in a circular motions.
- Sev is fried one side then turn over and fry other side on a medium flame until it becomes crisp and light brown.
- Place them on absorbent paper. Same process with the rest dough.
- Allow them to cool and than break into pieces.
- Serve Besan sev as a snack with tea or coffee and sprinkle it over chat, bhel, dahi wada, sev puri, pani puri, poha etc.
