Ingredients: 2 cups Green Amaranth Leaves – chopped,4 tablespoons Gram flour (besan),1 teaspoon Cumin seeds (Jeera),1 teaspoon Red Chilli powder,1 inch Ginger – chopped,Salt – to taste,Sunflower Oil,2 teaspoon Sesame seeds (Til seeds),1 sprig Curry leaves,1 pinch Asafoetida (hing),2 Dry Red Chillies
Time in minutes: 35 Servings: 4 Course: Snack Diet: Vegetarian
Instructions: To begin making the Thotakura Undalu Recipe, add chopped amaranth leaves in a bowl add all the ingredients mentioned next.Add little water and mix to form stick mixture. Using your hand take little of the mixture and hold it tightly to form a ball. Do the same for the rest of the mixture.Heat a kuzhi paniyaram pan with oil. Once it is hot place the balls in each cavity and fry them till they become crispy.Take them out and drain oil over a paper napkin. Heat a flat skillet with oil, Add sesame seeds and curry leaves and allow them to splutter for few seconds.Add dry red chilies and hing, let them crackle for 2 seconds, add fried amaranth balls and coat the the tempering well and serve hot.Serve the Thotakura Undalu Recipe along with Thakkali Rasam Recipe , steamed rice and Carrot Poriyal Recipe or just plain with Thakkali sadam.