Sujir Jhaal Nimki (Spicy Semolina Cracker)

 I was doing my usual scrounging  about recipe this evening!!...yeah you guys heard right..evening!! Hubby is late and after feeding my munchkin,she wanted to see cartoon!!. always it boils down to cartoon sometime I resist,sometimes I just simply give in. This time I did the last one,just gave in. So got some spare time and thought that should use it properly so started scrounging for my next project..some thing fancy..some thing great,some thing, by which I can prove that I am worthy of my kitchen...yes I know I am guilty of sounding wee bit melodramatic,but you get the point. I wanted something to challenge myself. So while foraging I saw some wonderful recipe and some awful,disgusting,strange ,down right weird recipes.  Weird flavours, strange ingredients...one cake recipe called for pickled cherry blossom!! Another asked sweetened adzuki beans...cherry blossom essence what happened to simplicity?? Simple vanilla essence or cocoa or strawberry puree, or anything except weird pickled cherry blossom!! I always prefer simple food,comfort food rather than the fancy ones. to me fancy foods ,fancy ingredients are not for eating or using stand them on the alter and worship..like a movie star..untouchable. Give me those over used, everyday ingredients any day and I'll create magic(or try to),don't need those costly and fancy or the weird sounding things.

So I settled on this simple and mainly QUICK snack!! This is another thing I like to eat..my favourite type of food!! Yah...yah I know it's not healthy..blah..blah..but who cares right!! Just like to hear the  munch, munch sound!! I think everybody who likes food would agree with me!! I made this simple,yeah,fried snack, Nimki(Flour Crisps), a very popular type of snack of my native land West Bengal.It is mainly evening snacks mainly eaten, in the evening with tea. But it is not just any nimki it is made out of semolina..which is always available in a Bengali pantry.So as a true bong gal,as I am, it was available in my Belgique  pantry,too. And my mind was crying for nimki for some days, those salty or sweet diamond shaped fried bliss...which is unfortunately not available here in Belgium..though not totally true, sometimes it is available though in the local Asian store,with which I defused my hankering for nimki,temporarily though,because I was not satisfied with the taste.it was bit greasy!! So I took upon myself to satisfy myself,which we should do it often.So while I was searching for the nimki recipe I came in contact with those some fancy, some straight forwardly awful recipe, which compelled to write these lots of words.But trust me,it will be ready in a lot less time!! Just spare some 10 min and bam you are enjoying it with hot tea or coffee!!

But now no more word except those which only give you the recipe.

Ingredients

1. Semolina – 1 cup
2. Nigella seeds – ½ tsp
3. Banking powder – 1 tsp
4. Coriander Leaves – chopped, as desired
5. Chili powder – 1 tsp
6. Black pepper powder  - ½ tsp
7. Salt – to taste
8. Water – as required
9. Flour – for rolling
10. Oil – as required

Method

• In a mixing bowl, mix together the semolina, baking powder, chili powder, nigella seeds, black pepper powder and salt. Add chopped coriander leaves, if desired. Mix a little water to make a paste of rolling consistency.
• Add 3 – 4 tbsp oil and mix well. Roll the dough on a lightly floured surface into a thin flat-bread. Dice it into desired shapes of small pieces. Heat oil in a frying pan, and deep fry the pieces. 
• Dry them in a kitchen paper to absorb excess oil. Serve warm with mayonnaise.