Ribbon ( Saraai pakoda )

Ingredients

1. Raw rice flour (Pachcharisi maavu) - 4 cup
2. Gram flour(Kadalai maavu) - 1 cup
3. Sunflower oil - 150 ml
4. Salt - 2 tablespoon
5. Asafoetida - 1/2 teaspoon
6. Red chilly powder - 1 teaspoon
7. Sunflower oil - for frying

Preparation

1. Mix rice flour, gram flour, salt, asafoetida and red chilly powder
2. Heat 2 tablespoon of sunflower oil in a pan for 2 minutes
3. Mix the oil with flour thoroughly
4. Split the flour quantity into 2 parts. 
5. Take the first part & mix water to form a paste. (1 tumbler of water might be required)
6. Fill ribbon achchu with this paste
7. Heat sunflower oil in a pan
8. Press the achchu over hot oil to form ribbon
9. Once the first part of the flour is over, mix water with the second part and prepare ribbon. [Ribbon color will turn dark brown/red if water is added early. Hence splitting it into 2 parts]