🇮🇳 Indian Vegetarian

Ratlami Sev

Name: Ratlami Sev
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 8 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 tsp Salt; 1/4 tsp Asafoetida; 1.5 cups Gram Flour; 1/2 tsp Ajwain; 2 tsp Red Chili Powder; for deep frying Peanut Oil; 5, ground fine Cloves

🇮🇳 Indian

Ratlam's notorious clove-hot sev — hotter, darker and more perfumed than any other sev in the Indian canon. Locals eat it straight by the newspaper cone; outsiders are warned.

Prep 20 min Cook 15 min Serves 8 Easy

Ingredients

Salt1 tsp
Asafoetida1/4 tsp
Gram Flour1.5 cups
Ajwain1/2 tsp
Red Chili Powder2 tsp
Peanut Oilfor deep frying
Cloves5, ground fine

Instructions

1
Mix gram flour with ground cloves, red chili powder, asafoetida, ajwain and salt.
2
Knead with water into a soft dough; rest 15 minutes.
3
Press thin wires into medium-hot oil.
4
Fry till the raw smell fades and the colour darkens.
5
Cool; the clove heat builds as they sit.

Chef's tip

Use whole cloves freshly ground — bottled clove powder here loses the perfume that defines Ratlami.

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Video: Ratlami Sev | Sanjeev Kapoor Khazana · on YouTube