Ribbon Pakoda - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 cups gram flour
2 cups rice flour
1 1/2 cups hot ghee
salt
2 1/2 teaspoons chili powder
1 1/2 teaspoons asafoetida powder
1 pinch baking soda
oil (for deep frying)

Preparation

Sieve the gram flour, rice flour and baking soda.
Mix well.
Add salt, asafoetida, ghee and chilli powder followed by water.
Mix well till it forms a thick dough.
Heat oil.
Put the dough in a mould which has got the design of a ribbon.
Place the mould on top of the heated oil and squeeze it slowly.
Drain and serve when the ribbon savouries become crisp and golden.