Tikhat Shev recipe | khara sev | Diwali snacks

I guess everybody must have tasted shev .Shev is of two types yellow ( ompudi /shevpuri sev) & second one is the red shev (khara podi).Both versions are equally tasty.Both sev are made from besan /chickpea flour with turmeric added in yellow version & red chilli powder & owa/ajwain/carom seeds added in the red sev .

This crisp vermicelli made of gram flour is used to top almost all chaats. Mounds of different types of sevs are displayed at almost all farsan shops. The variety of flavours you get includes palak sev, garlic sev, pepper sev etc. Just name it and it is available! ButI Had never thought that making sev at home was as simple as this! in it.

Last year I Had bought chakli maker /chakli press /sorya in marathi in hyderabad.since then this shev recipe was in my mind.I love both varieties of shev .My style of eating shev is dip it in a cup of tea & then eat it with spoon & drink the leftover spicy tea which tastes so good as all flavours of sev get incorporated in it.

Shev can me made thick or thin using the shev attachment /plate with big or thin holes .

Ingredients:
 1/2 cup Oil
 1/2 cup Water
  2 cup Besan (Chana daal powder)
  1 tspTurmeric Powder
  1 tbsp Red Chilli Powder
  1 tsp Carom Seeds
  Salt
 Oil for frying

Method:

1.Mix oil and water in a container.Blend it well using egg bitter till white foam appears.

 2.Add Salt, turmeric powder, chilli powder, carom seeds to taste.

3.Add Besan spoon by spoon  and keep mixing it well. knead to a soft dough.

4. Grease sorya /chakli maker / kitchen press with oil from inside. Use shev attachment (the plate with small / large holes ) .Add gram flour dough  to shev maker.

chakli maker with different plates/attachments

5.heat oil in a kadhai

6.Hold the shev press above the kadhai and press (or turn depending on the mould) and deep fry the shev.  Be careful while turning the mould because of hot oil.  Or, press the shev on paper towels and then add in hot oil. 

7.Fry noodle like threads of shev on medium high flame . Keep flame low so that shev don't burn.dont overfry or else shev will turn black

8. Drain on kitchen towel  & crumble with hands gently to make shev .