Namak Paare
December 17th, 2008 filed under Snacks, Vegan
Namak paare is pastry like crunchy snack lightly seasoned with carom seed. This is great snack with cup of tea. I like them with spiced mango or lemon pickle.
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup All purpose flour (plain flour or maida)
- 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
- 2 tablespoons Sooji fine (semolina flour)
- 3/4 teaspoon Salt
- 1/4teaspoon Carom seeds (ajwain)
- 2 tablespoon oil
- About 1/3 cup water as needed
- Oil to fry
Method:
- Mix flour, sooji, salt, carom seeds, and oil, and mix it with fingertips to get consistency of breadcrumb.
- Add water as needed to make firm but smooth dough. Cover with damp cloth and set aside at least for ten minutes.
- Knead the dough for another minute and divide in two equal parts.
- Take each part of the dough and make a flat ball shape. Roll them into 9-inch circles and thickness of salted crackers.
- Prick them with a fork all over the rolled dough, so the paras do not puff when frying.
- Cut each of the rolled dough into about half inch wide and 2 inch long pieces. Note: you can cut them in your desire shape.
- Heat the oil in a frying pan on medium heat.
- The frying pan should have at least 1 ½ 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.
- Make sure to place just enough namak paras so you can turn them over easily when frying. Fry the namak paras until both sides are light golden-brown.
- After namak paras come to room temperature they should become crisp.
Tips:
- Namak paras can be stored for one month in airtight containers.
- If the Namak paras are cooked on high heat, they will be soft.
Namastey Manjula Aunty,
I want to thank you for being my guide in my journey to being a good cook since last year when I got married and moved to UK to join my Husband.
I am very obliged to you as now I can cook almost anything with the help of your recipes and video demo. Especially because they do not contain garlic and onion. Life has been very easy and I can arrange parties at my home because of your website. It’s like an on-line Cookery course which gives the certificate of everyone’s appreciation when they eat these moutwatering dishes.
You are just like a loving Mother teaching countless daughters the secrets of cooking and winning Hearts.
THANKS & REGARDS !
Alka.
AUNTY JI ! yor recipes r wonderfull i really enjoy making them. Thanks alot aunty
Aunty,
I made this snack today,it came out very good and everyone in my family loved it.
Thanks .
raji
Dear aunty,
my guest, kids and everyone liked this recipe thanks a lot.
luv and rgds
Your recipe for namak paare is very good, it seems that you are a wonderful cook, keep trying new dishes and keep sharing your experiences with us.
thank you for an amazing recipe.
Hello Auntyji
Just made these namak paaras couple of days ago….they came out extremely good….my kids enjoyed them a lot….the only thing I did different is I cut them into diamond shapes….aunty can you please tell me how to turn the same recipe into saakar paara ??? Do i use jaggery or sugar and how much of either would I use…..thanks again
hi nikki
u can make shakar paare like this
2 cup maida 2tbsp ghee mix very well to bind if req add little more ghee .to check if more ghee is require or not take the dough in ur hand n make like muthiya in between ur fingers n palm it should bind n little n does not scrumble .then add little water to make very tight dough then roll like chapati very thick more than 1/4 inch then cut 1/2 inch stips n further cut into fingers or squares n deep fry on medium flame then make sugar syrup with 1 cup sugar n 1 cup water of 1 thread n dip pare in it n dip for some time n also check that they do not stick to each other than take out n dry in fan for some time than let it cool itself n store
3 teaspoons = 1 tablespoon.
Thank you so much manjulaji for this wonderful recipe…
please advice how many teaspoons is one tabelspoon?
Hi Divya,
You can but i think it wont great taste.
Is it possible to do this recipe without the ajwain seeds? I am not sure if I can find it in my locality. Thanks a lot Manjulaji.