Ismaili Recipes - This blog contains our family recipes; mainly it is Ismaili (Khoja) cuisine, our family lived in Uganda for 3 generations so we have a marked East African(Swahili, Lugandi) Influence in our cooking AND in our language!! (Kutchi / Cutchi / Gujarati. In recent years with new additions to the family our cooking includes, English, Pakistani, Italian and Irish influences.
Tuesday 2 March 2010
Namak Para / Indian Salt Crackers
Ingredients
2 cups plain flour
2 tblspns vegetable oil
1 teaspoon ajwain
1 heaped tspn coarsely ground black pepper
1/2 tspn salt
Oil for frying
Method
Sieve the flour, mix in the cumin seeds, salt and pepper
Add the oil, rub it in so it is like bread crumbs
Add enough water to make a firm doughl, rest it for 30 minutes
Divide into lemon sized portions
Roll into 3/4 inch thickness
Cut into diamond shaped peices with a sharp a knife
Fry in medium hot oil
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2 comments:
We made these last summer, I finally managed to blog it.
Lovely and srunchy para...great with tea and also for picnic!!
cheers
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