Kuzhalappam/ Rice flour cannoli / Fried rice flour tubes: Version 2

Fried snacks are an important part of daily life everywhere in the world. It is hard to say no to them, they are deadly delicious, but not so healthy to our heart. Still we love to munch on them. In India for every festival, there will be a load of fried snack in the form of sweet or savory. Nowadays I am trying to avoid fried goodies as much as possible, still in the name of festival I make them (It is one way of satisfy my guilty mind that I am doing it because of it is part of festival). 

In Kerala (my home state) for Christmas fried goodies like achappam (Kerala style rosette cookies) which is sweet, and kuzhalapam (a savory) are made as evening tea munchies. However, I used to munch them all time of the day. Last Christmas also I made these two snacks; however this time I skipped coconut milk in kuzhalappam and made it in a slightly different way than the earlier version, and also added garlic to increase the flavor. My hubby suggested one more change that I need to make them spicier by adding black pepper or chili powder. I told him I will try it later. That is definitely deviating for the traditional way of making them.

This time I used a new achapam mold gifted by my younger sister-in-law when I had visited India. I did not add All Purpose Flour to recipe (like I did last year) and used only rice flour. I didn’t find any difference in taste by not using All Purpose Flour recipe, it turned out be crispy and delicious. For achappam recipe take a look at here. Updated post with step by step pictures. 

If you like garlicky oniony salty fried snack give a try to Kuzhalappam. Buy a cannoli mold, and then you can make both cannoli and Kuzhalappam. Here goes the recipe for Kuzhalappam.

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What you need

 Rice flour: 1 cup (I used store bought flour, slightly roasted)
Pearl onions: 3 no
Garlic clove: 1 no
Cumin seeds: ½ teaspoon
Black sesame seeds: 1 teaspoon
Salt: ¼ teaspoon or to taste
Water: ¼ cup+ 1 tablespoon
Oil for frying: 4 cup (I used canola oil)










How I made

Grind cumin seeds, garlic clove and pearl onions with a tablespoon of water into a coarse paste and set aside. 

In sauce pan heat ¼ cup water with salt bring to a boil. Once it starts boiling switch off the flame and set aside. 

In a medium bowl mix roasted rice flour, black sesame seeds, ground onion- garlic –cumin- seed mixture. To this gradually add salted water and form slightly thick dough. Knead well so that it becomes smooth not sticky dough ball. Cover the bowl with lid and set aside. 

Heat 4 cup oil in a thick bottomed pan, when it reaches 370 F. Divide the dough into small balls and try to roll out into thin circular disc as cookie dough. Since it is difficult to rolling out the dough with a rolling pin, I used a Ziploc cover and placed small amount of dough in between the fold and applied pressure to make thin sheet in between sheets.

Take a cannoli form and gradually the wrap the thin round of dough around the form; press the ends so that it has shape of tube. 

Slowly drop the cannoli form with dough into the hot oil fry them until they become golden brown color. It took about 5 minutes. Fry 2-3 tubes depending upon pan size. Make sure as dough tubes are fully drenched into the oil. Keep flipping sides until it’s become crispy and cooked well. Remove with a slotted spoon and drain excess oil in a paper towel. When they are cool enough to touch remove the cannoli forms from fried kuzhalappam.  Fry rest of them until you finish the entire dough. When completely cooled, store it an air tight container.

Enjoy....

Preparation time: 45 minutes
Yield: 12
Verdict: Tasty, yummy crispy snack
Will you make it again: Yes I will

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