Nippattu | Rice Crackers | ನಿಪ್ಪಟ್ಟು | தட்டை | చెక్కలు

Nippattu is a crispy deep-fried rice cracker that is addictive and delicious from Karnataka cuisine. Nippattu is similar to Thattai from Tamilnadu and Chekkalu from Andhra Pradesh since all 3 of them use similar ingredients, but they would differ in taste and texture from region to region.

Ingredients

1. Rice Flour - 1 cup
2. Gram Flour - 2 tbsp
3. All-purpose Flour (maida) - 2 tbsp
4. Fried Gram - 1/4 cup
5. Peanuts - 1/4 cup (roasted and cleaned)
6. Red Chili powder - 1 tbsp
7. Curry Leaves - some (chopped)
8. Cumin Seeds - 1 tbsp
9. Sesame Seeds - 1 tbsp
10. Ghee or (Butter) - 2 tbsp
11. Asafetida - little (powdered)
12. Cooking Oil - for deep frying
13. Salt to taste
14. Water as required

Directions

1. Take a mixing jar and add 1/4 cup of roasted and cleaned peanuts and 1/4 cup of fried gram.
2. Grind them to a coarse powder and keep them aside. Nippattu tastes great when you use coarsely powdered peanuts as the crunchy bites make it tastier.
3. Take a bowl and add 1 cup of rice flour, 1/4 cup of gram flour, 2 tbsp of all-purpose flour (maida), 1 tbsp of red chili powder, 1 tbsp of cumin seeds, 1 tbsp of sesame seeds, a little bit of powdered asafetida, some chopped curry leaves, salt as per taste.
4. Mix all the ingredients.
5. Add coarse powder of peanuts and fried gram into the mixture.
6. Mix well and keep the mixture aside.
7. Take a small pan and add 2 tbsp of ghee into it.
8. When the ghee is hot enough, add the hot ghee into the bowl that contains the Nippatu mixture. Adding little hot ghee over the flour will make it more crunchy.
9. To make Nippattu even crunchier, you can also add a tbsp of semolina (sooji / rava).
10. Mix the mixture with the help of a spoon.
11. When the ghee is not hot anymore, mix it with your hand.
12. Add little by little water and make a very thick dough.
13. Take a small portion of dough and make small balls of lemon size.
14. To flatten the dough and make it look like a Nippattu, use a plastic cover and grease it with cooking oil.
15. Place the dough on the plastic cover. Keep pressing and flatten it to look like a Nippattu shape.
16. Using a bowl, you can get a perfectly circular shape Nippattu.
17. Take another pan and add cooking oil for deep frying on a medium flame.
18. When the oil is hot enough, carefully remove the Nippattu dough from plastic cover and drop it into the cooking oil.
19. Fry and flip them till they become golden brown in color on both sides
20. That's it! Nippattus are ready to eat.

Nippattus are eaten as an evening snack along with tea and also made during festivals.

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