How to Prepare Uppu Seedai (salted seedai) Step by Step Recipe
Ingredients needed
Raw Rice flour(Pacharisi mavu)- 2 cups
Urad dal flour – 3 tsp
Butter – 21/4 tbsp
Grated coconut – 2 tbsp (optional)
Chilli powder -1 tsp
Hing – 1/4 tsp
Salt as required
Oil for deep frying
(My apologies -In the video, I have mentioned it as 3 tsp of urad dal flour by mistake for 1 cup kozhukattai flour. It is 1 1/2 – 2 tsp of roasted, powdered and sieved urad dal flour
for 1 cup of kozhukattai flour.)
Preparation
Then dry roast the rice flour till it becomes slightly hot to touch. Do not roast the flour until it changes color.
Dry roast whole urad dal till it turns golden brown. After it cools, grind it to a very fine powder and sieve it.We need 3 tsp of this powder/flour.
Mix hing and salt in a little water and keep it ready.
Method
Mix well rice flour, urad dal flour, grated coconut, butter, chilli powder, salt and hing first.
Then sprinkle water and make a smooth dough. Do not add too much water.
Now grease your palms with oil and make small balls roughly from the dough.You do not have to make fine smooth balls. Make small sized balls (see pic below), so that it will get cooked well inside.
Spread the balls in a cloth for 10 minutes to dry if required.
Heat oil in a kadai, add a small ball of seedai, if it comes to the surface, the oil is hot enough to fry the seedais.
Now keep it in medium flame, drop a handful of balls gently into the oil and fry the balls.
Keep stirring so that it will get cooked evenly.
Once the frying sound subsides, remove the seedais with a slotted ladle and transfer to a colander to drain the excess oil.
Yummy and crunchy seedais are ready. Store it in an airtight container.
Tips –
To prevent seedai from bursting, sieve the flour after roasting.
Do not make very smooth balls.If you make smooth balls, air bubbles might get trapped inside which will result in bursting of seedai.
Also ensure that you make small even sized balls, so that the whole batch will get cooked at the same time.
Avoid making big balls as the inside will not get cooked properly.
Sieving of rice flour and urad dal flour is important because if there are any small particles or grains in it, it will cause the seedai to burst while frying.
Color of the seedai will change according to the quality of rice flour and urad dal.
Check out my vella seedai recipe also. Link for the recipe given below-
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Premalatha Aravindhan
wow perfect seedai,love it…
PT
so cute.. like it..
simran
Happy Krishna Jayanthi to you too…..very nice seedai.
Rekha
perfect and yummy seedai.. very useful tips..
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APARNARAJESHKUMAR
picture is so nice
Veena Theagarajan
Happy Krishna Jayanthi! prefect seedai I love it
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Shama Nagarajan
delicious and yummy !!! Join in Fast Food Event – Noodles .
Suja Manoj
Perfect and yummy,love it.
Kannada Cuisine
Happy Gokulastami 🙂
Reshmi Mahesh
Perfect delicious seedai..
priya
your recipes are really good and mouth watering. Happy krishna jayanthi and adi krithigai
Priya Sankar
Kavitha
wow….want a handful seedai for munching….looks very crispy and perfectly done 🙂
Meenakshi Moorthy
mam i got it with nice taste but its butsting inbetween and its very soft i need it some wat hard so tat it tastes better, pls suggest me some tips for that
PadhuSankar
Dear Meenakshi
You should sieve the flour well.Even if there a any small particles, it will cause bursting. If you want it hard, reduce the amount of butter a little.
archana
Hi Padhu!
Any tips how to avoid soft seedai? Mine dont turn out crunchy :'( Once I did make crunchy, following the same recipe next two times I had only non crunchy ones. I am thinking of giving up .
PadhuSankar
Archana – Try reducing the butter a little
Geetha Bhagendran
I tried your uppu seedai, CAme out really well 🙂 The quantities and the tips you give are really helpful for beginners like us! Keep up the good work 🙂
shweta sreeram
dear padhu!!
would like to try this recipe this janmashtami!! how many cheedais can be made using the quantities mentioned by you?
shweta
Padhu Sankar
I have never counted but it will be enough for a family of 4.
Jayanthi Thirumala
Thanks Smt. Padhu. Happy Krishna jayanthi. Jayanthi Raghavan
Sowmya Ram
Hi, I tried your receipe. The seedais came out very crispy and tasty. However after one day, they became soft. What did I do wrong?
Prameela Bhat
Tried this recipe and came out well ,will be posting this recipe in my blog too … Thanks so much !
Subha
Hi one doubt. In uppu seedai you have have told to soak rice for 4 hrs and vellai seedai for 1.5 hrs. Can I soak for 2 hrs ?
Padhu Sankar
Yes, you can soak for 2 hours.
Vaishnavi
Can I use store-bought rice flour instead of raw rice?
Padhu Sankar
It will not be good. Prepare rice flour as mentioned above. You can grind it in mixie though it will take time.
Sugandhi chakraborty
Dear padhu
Can you add ghee instead of butter for the uppu seedai
Padhu Sankar
I have not tried it with ghee yet.
Vidya Vinod
Thanks for the recipe.It came out really well..
suresh Suresh
1.Never skip the dry roasting of flour.
2.Right oil temperature is very important. If very low that may not be cooked and it may absorb oil.
3.If I'll very hot,appear very crispy and after some time ,inside it may become soft.
4.Always maintain medium heat.Once a batch is done,slightly increase the flame until,you remove the seedais from flame.Then switch back to medium.
5.The laddle, all vessels used and storage box should be absolutely dry.
6.Allow the seedais in room temperature for few minutes after cooling.And then store it.
dhanalakshmi mohan
For Vella seedhi, jaggery water to be cooled before adding to rice flour.
Padhu Sankar
Click the vella seedain picture for the detailed recipe. It should be warm.
Unknown
Good job
Aswini Arvind
Hi padhu
Can we prepare the rice flour a day before and keep it ready ?