Namak Pare Recipe – Crispy crunchy snack

Namak Pare Recipe is the savory snack from Indian Cuisine. Indian cuisine has a room for tons of snack recipes. If I say ‘tons’ here, literally means tons of snacking recipes, varied from crunchy, crispy, soft, moist, healthy, vegan, vegetarian, this list never ends.

If your fingers search for small tit bits in between your tea time, then possibly these crunchy, crispy snack can be your ultimate snack. The stand alone snack is a perfect companion for tea, but it also best partner with salads, soups, chats, you name it, it can be there.

You could have seen your mom, running her fingers on the dry flour for a long time, yeah secret is here, incorporating all the ingredients to the flour is an important procedure. And do not crowd the pan, and fry them in batches. Maintaining the temperature of the oil while frying, is another important key, so fry in hot oil for first 2 minutes and reduce to medium-slow flame till it becomes golden brown.

You may also interested in looking into other crunchy snacking recipes like, soft and crunchy samosas, and kids friendly potli samosa.

How to make:

1. Combine maida, rava, salt, carom seeds, black cumin, ghee well, so that every part of the flour incorporated with ghee, which I consider most important step here in this recipe. So take at least few minutes to combine by smashing the lumps formed by the ghee, when added to the flour.

2. Sprinkle little water at a time to form the smooth and stiff dough. Then keep it aside for half and hour. Then divide the dough into equal sized portions. Roll and spread out each portion like roti. Cut into symmetrical shape as desired, I went with square shape. See in this picture, after cutting the dough, the shape is perfect and does not swirl.

3. Heat oil in a heavy bottomed pan, when it becomes hot, fry square-shaped dough in high flame for 2 minutes and in medium flame till it becomes golden brown in color and no sizzling sound. Flip the sides, occasionally, fry them in batches. Strain and keep it over kitchen towel, to remove excess oil.

This Namak Pare Recipe is the best tea time snack. Can be deliciously consumed as it as or serving it with green chutney makes the evening memorable. These crispy cubes can also be added to chats or in salads.

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Namak Pare Recipe

Namak Pare Recipe is the savory snack from Indian Cuisine. Indian cuisine has a room for tons of snack recipes. If I say 'tons' here, literally means tons of snacking recipes, varied from crunchy, crispy, soft, moist, healthy, vegan, vegetarian, this list never ends.

Course Appetizer

Cuisine Indian

Prep Time 30 minutes

Cook Time 15 minutes

Total Time 45 minutes

Servings 8 people

Calories 608 kcal

Author Sujatha Muralidhar

Ingredients

• 1 Cup All Purpose Flour / maida
• 3 tbsp Semolina / rava
• 1/2 tsp Carom Seeds
• 2 tsp Black Cumin seeds
• 2 tbsp Ghee
• 1/2 tsp Salt or as required
• Luke warm water
• 2 Cups Cooking Oil For Frying

Directions

1. Combine maida, rava, salt, carom seeds, black cumin, ghee well, so that every part of the flour incorporated with ghee, which I consider most important step here in this recipe. So take at least few minutes to combine by smashing the lumps formed by the ghee, when added to the flour.
2. Sprinkle little water at a time to form the smooth and stiff dough. Then keep it aside for half and hour. Then divide the dough into equal sized portions. Roll and spread out each portion like roti. Cut into symmetrical shape as desired, I went with square shape. See in this picture, after cutting the dough, the shape is perfect and does not swirl.
3. Heat oil in a heavy bottomed pan, when it becomes hot, fry square-shaped dough in high flame for 2 minutes and in medium flame till it becomes golden brown in color and no sizzling sound. Flip the sides, occasionally, fry them in batches. Strain and keep it over kitchen towel, to remove excess oil.

Nutrition Facts

Namak Pare Recipe

Amount Per Serving

Calories 608 Calories from Fat 540

% Daily Value*

Total Fat 60g 92%

Saturated Fat 6g 30%

Cholesterol 9mg 3%

Sodium 146mg 6%

Potassium 36mg 1%

Total Carbohydrates 16g 5%

Protein 2g 4%

Vitamin A 0.1%

Calcium 0.7%

Iron 7.3%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

Tips and Variations for Namak Pare Recipe:
Add kasuri methi to make methi pare, and dip it in sugar syrup to make sugar pare.Searching for other evening Teatime snacking recipes?  Look out these, MiniMurukku, Banana Bajji.

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