Mathri (Salted Crackers)
October 21st, 2007 filed under Snacks, Vegan
Mathris are salted crisp crackers. Mathris are popular afternoon snack. Traditionally, mathris are served with spicy pickles.
Makes 40 to 50 mathri.
Ingredients:
- 2 cups All Purpose flour (plain flour or maida)
- 1/2 cup sooji (semolina flour)
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ajwain
- 4 tablespoons oil
- 3/4 cup lukewarm water (use as needed)
- Oil to fry
Method:
- Mix all the ingredients except the water.
- Add the water little at a time, kneading into a firm dough.
- Cover the dough and set aside for 15 minutes or more.
- Divide the dough into about 40 equal parts.
- Take each part of the dough and make a flat ball shape. Roll them into 2 inch circles.
- Prick each mathri with a fork in 5 to 6 places, so the mathris do not puff when frying.
- Heat the oil in a frying pan on medium heat.
- The frying pan should have atleast 1 1/2 inch of oil.To check if the oil is ready, put a small piece of dough in the oil. The dough should make the oil sizzle and come up slowly.
- Fry a few matris at a time. Make sure to place just enough mathris to cover the frying oil.
- Fry the mathris until both sides are a light golden-brown.
Tips:
- Mathris can be stored for a couple of months in airtight containers.
- If the mathris are cooked on high heat, they will be soft.
Finding alternatives to deep frying is a challenge even in “American” cooking because frying gives a crispiness and crunchiness to the texture that we are used to with certain foods – mathris, kachoris, samosas, french fries, onion rings, and so forth.
I look forward to baked alternatives also.
I am working on some baked recipes
hello aunty,
Please tell us how to bake mathri instead of frying. My husband doesn’t like fried stuff.. Thank u.
So thats how you make saltine crackers!I love them!Now I can make them at home!
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Dear manju didi i love this site and i tried the gol gappas (pani puri ) but after few min they become soft my husband liked them too much when i served but after few min they turned soft don,t no why what should i do to make them perfect
Dear Manjula aunty,
I made your mathris yesterday and they are perfect!
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