Karasev Recipe

Time and servings

Prep time	5 min
Cook time	10 min
Total time	15 min
Serves	2 sev

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Ingredients

• 1 cup besan / gram flour
• ½ cup rice flour
• ½ tsp cumin / jeera
• ¼ tsp turmeric / haldi
• 1 tsp black pepper (crushed)
• pinch of hing / asafoetida
• 1 tbsp butter (room temperature)
• ½ tsp salt
• water as required (for dough)
• oil for deep frying

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Instructions

1. firstly, in a large mixing bowl take 1 cup besan and ½ cup rice flour.
2. add in ½ tsp cumin, ¼ tsp turmeric, 1 tsp crushed pepper, pinch of hing and 1 tbsp butter and ½ tsp salt. combine well.
3. now add ¼ cup water (or as required) and prepare smooth dough. the dough will be slightly sticky, thats normal.
4. grease the large holed mould with some oil and stuff dough into it.
5. further, press and spread the sev in hot oil forming a circle in the oil and make sure you do not overlap.
6. after a minute, flip over and fry the other side.
7. finally, drain over kitchen paper to absorb oil and repeat making more khara sev with the remaining dough.

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Step-by-step

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Notes

• firstly, instead of pepper you can use red chilli powder or combination of both.
• also, make sure to fry in hot oil on medium flame. else khara sev will be raw from inside.
• additionally, rice flour helps to make sev more crispy and tasty.
• finally, khara sev stays good for a month when stored in airtight container.