Omapodi

Ingredients
Gram flour 3 cups
Rice flour 1 cup
Annie seeds 3 tbsp
Chilli powder 1 tbsp
Salt
2 tbsp of butter
Water
Oil

Method
Soak the annie seeds in water for 30 minutes  and grind it. Filter the paste through the sieve and use only the juice.
Sieve the gram flour and rice flour together.
Add chilli powder and salt to it.
Add 2 tbsp of butter to it and mix well.
Add enough  water to make a dough of roti dough consistency.
Keep oil in a  frying pan.
Put the dough in the omapodi mold and add it to the oil from periphery (outside) to centre in circles . Fry it till light brown and remove it.
Keep it in an airtight container.

Note: When making large quantities of omapodi, donot prepare a lot of dough together. Finish one portion of the flour and mix the rest after that.

Cornflakes Chivda (Cornflakes Mixture)

A very healthy snack, ideal for the tea time.

Ingredients:
500g Cornflakes sugar coated, caramel or the normal one
100g Sugar
3 tsp Salt
50g Roasted Groundnuts
50g Roasted cashewnuts
50g Roasted almonds
50g Orange rind (tooti- fruiti)
50g Rice flakes (poha)
50 g raisins
3-4 tbsp Dried coconut powder (optional)
5 tb sp Oil or Ghee
2 tbsp Red chilli powder
1 tb sp of turmeric powder
Handful of Curry leaves

Method:
Roast the nuts and raisins one by one in ghee or oil and keep it separately
Take the cornflakes in a big vessel. If sugar coated cornflakes is not used , add the required amount of sugar according to your taste and mix well.
Add the roasted nuts, raisins, orange rind and mix together.
In a frying pan take ghee or oil and fry the rice flakes till it pops up.
Add it to the cornflakes mixture.
Add required amount of salt and mix well.
Add powdered dry coconut powder.
Take a little ghee or oil add the chilli powder, turmeric powder and curry leaves. Let the powder fry. Don’t allow it to burn. Add this hot oil to the cornflakes and mix well. If the oil is not enough to coat the cornflakes , warm more oil and mix together.
For better taste ghee can be used instead of oil.