Baked Sev Recipe | How to make Baked Omapodi Mixture

Name: Baked Sev Recipe | How to make Baked Omapodi Mixture
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 12 min
Total time: 22 min
Ingredients: 1.25 cup Gram flour (Besan / Kadalai Maavu / Kadale hittu); 1/4 cup Rice flour; 3/4 tsp Salt (or to taste); 1 tsp Carrom Seeds (Omam / Ajwain / Omkaalu); 1 tsp Chilly powder (adjust spice); 4 TBSP Cooking Oil (Any neutral oil)

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Baked Sev is a healthy, no deep-fry version of the popular sev / gram flour fritters or Omapodi. Served as is at tea time or topped over Chaats

Omapodi or Sev is a popular snack at tea time. Omam in Tamil means Ajwain / carom seeds and Podi means bits …so its basically a snack flavoured with Carom seeds and crushed into little bits before consuming. Colloquially, this is also called “Omapodi“

Also made for Diwali as part of the Bhakshanams (fried offerings) along with the baked Nippatu (Rice flour crispy snack) , this gram flour snack is highly addictive too. Although we do deep fry this, I wanted to bake this and test if it would taste as good, and it did !! As I was making this for the first time, I tried a small batch, but once you get a hang of the recipe, you can make large batches and store them in an airtight container.

It takes close monitoring on the baking temperature, and a little more attention while making the dough. But apart from that, its a breeze to make this in batches and munch on guilt-free snacks with a cup of tea / Coffee. Kids would also love to munch on this as a after-school snack.

Tips and tricks to make the best Baked Sev

You can also add crushed black pepper / turmeric to the dough, but I didn’t add.
Use fresh flour always, Sieve them 2-3 times mandatorily
Air dry them once you squeeze them on the baking sheet., if you bake them immediately, they will burn and then turn soft
Use Oil / spice / salt as indicated in the recipe
Oven time / airfryer time varies from gadget to gadget. Make a small test batch and see the temperature and bake time required

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Makes approximately :300 gm Shelf life : upto a week without refrigeration

Prep time : 10 min, Bake time : 9-10 mins / batch

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Ingredients to make Baked Sev

1.25 cup Gram flour (Besan / Kadalai Maavu / Kadale hittu)
1/4 cup Rice flour
3/4 tsp Salt (or to taste)
1 tsp Carrom Seeds (Omam / Ajwain / Omkaalu)
1 tsp Chilly powder (adjust spice)
4 TBSP Cooking Oil (Any neutral oil)

How to make Baked Sev:

Sieve together the flours and salt. Mix well. Add in the red chilly powder and mix again.
**Meanwhile soak the ajwain seeds in warm water for 10 mins. Grind them with the soaked water and strain them well, Add this water to the flour
Heat the oil to smoking point and switch off the flame.Let it cool a bit , now add to the flour – ajwain mixture.
Very gently, using a spoon if required (as the oil is hot), mix the ingredients well. Add 1 TBSP of additional water , at a time, and make into a stiff dough. I used about 1/4 cup of water more. This totally depends on the quality of the besan and rice flours
Pinch a large roundel into your Omapodi maker (Ompodi press aka Naazhi) with the requisite mould (as shown in the pictures here) and squeeze out the sev onto prepared baking sheets.
Let them air dry for 6-8 mins.
Meanwhile preheat your oven to 165/170 Deg C.
Bake them for 8-10 mins / batch and watch them carefully. Besan burns very fast, so you might need a couple of batches to confirm which temperature works best for your oven.
Cool them on wire racks or on a large plate once done. break them gently and store in an airtight container.

**You can soak the ajwain and grind as mentioned or even dry roast and powder them finely. Either way ensure that the ajwain in finely ground so it doesnt obstruct the dough when its squeezed out of the ompodi press