Thursday, June 24, 2010

My first post in the series of Indian Rural Speciality Foods


Uggani
- a simple and fast snack from Kurnool (A.P.) region

This delicious common-man’s snack from Andhra is essentially made of puffed Rice.

Ingredients:
Puffed Rice - 4 cups
Onions - 3 medium sized
Garlic - ½ glove
Cumin seed - ½ tps
Mustard seed - ½ tps
Bengal Gram( Dry Roasted) - ½ cup
Dry Coconut Powder - ½ cup
Red chillies - 3 or 4
Green Chillies - 3 to 4
Oil refined - 4 tps
Salt - to taste

Preparation:
Soak the Puffed Rice in water for 1 or 2 minutes, decant and keep in a vessel.
Roast the Bengal Gram, Red Chillies and coconut powder and coarsely grind the contents.
Pour 4 tps of oil in a pan and fry cumin seed, mustard, finely chopped green chillies, curry leaves ( kari Patta) and the finely chopped onions. Fry till the onions turn light brown.
Add the puffed rice and stir well the entire mix. Add salt to taste. Finally sprinkle the ground powder and once again mix well.
Uggani is ready to be served.