Palak Sev is a crunchy and flavoursome dry snack usually prepared during Diwali. It makes a good snack to serve along with other sweets.
Diwali is round the corner and so much of enthusiasm all around. It’s the festival we look forward to celebrate and enjoy. Many sweets and snacks are prepared and children are happy enjoying the vacation.
Today, I bring to you Palak Sev or Spinach Crispies. It’s crunchy and flavoursome, makes a good snack with tea.
Let’s get to the recipe without much ado
Ingredients: Measurement: 1 cup =200 ml
- 1 cluster spinach
- 1cup gram flour
- 2 teaspoon rice flour
- salt
- 2 teaspoon hot oil
- 5 green chilly
- 1 inch ginger
- 1 teaspoon cumin
- water
- oil for frying
Method:
- Remove the stalk of spinach leaves.
- Cut and blanch it.
- When cool, grind it to a paste with chilly, ginger and cumin. Do not add water.
- Remove the paste in a bowl.
- Add salt to it. Mix. Heat oil in a pan.
- Put rice flour and gram flour to it. Add two tea spoon of hot oil to it. Mix and knead to a dough. Use only as much gram flour as required.
- Take a sev maker, smear some oil to it. Take some dough and make it to a cylindrical shape. Put it inside, close and once the oil is hot, press it directly in the oil. Ensure the oil is on low flame while pressing the sev.
- Fry on medium high, use a long handled perforated ladle to toss and remove it.
- Remove on a tissue paper. Repeat with the rest of the dough.
- Once cool, put in a container and keep it.
Take a tip: Green chilly used were not spicy, hence used 5.
Palak Sev / Spinach Crispies
Ingredients
- 1 cluster spinach
- 1 cup gram flour 1 cup =200ml
- 2 teaspoon rice flour
- salt
- 5 green chilly
- 1 teaspoon cumin
- 1 inch ginger
- 2 teaspoon oil
- oil for frying
Instructions
- Remove the stalk of spinach leaves. Cut and blanch it. When cool, grind it to a paste with chilly, ginger and cumin. Do not add water.
- Remove the paste in a bowl.
- Add salt to it. Mix. Put rice flour and gram flour to it and knead to a dough. Use only as much gram flour as required. Heat oil in a pan, add two teaspoon of hot oil to the dough.
- Take a sev maker, smear some oil to it. Take some dough and make it to a cylindrical shape. Put it inside, close and once the oil is hot, press it directly in the oil. Ensure the oil is on low flame while pressing the sev.
- Fry on medium high, use a long handled perforated ladle to toss and remove it.
- Remove on a tissue paper. Repeat with the rest of the dough. Once cool, put in a container and keep it. Stays good for more than a week.
Notes
- The green chilly used were not hot, so I used 5.
My popular snack recipes : Ragi Halbai, Chiwda, Murukku, Ash gourd Halwa, Nippattu
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How tempting and dangerously addictive palak sev, just love chaklis with palak but yet to make sev with. Tasty crunchy munchies, prefect savory for diwali definitely.
Palak sev is a nice option. I am sure it is flavorful with the essence of palak puree and the Evergreen besan .
That is a easy green addition to the sev. Looks lovely Jayashree
Adding palak puree to the sev dough is a wonderful idea. A different kind of sev from the usual one I make. A wonderful share for the Diwali Dhamaka.
Sev looks crispy and delicious. Adding palak to it is a great idea and your recipe makes it look so easy to make. No Diwali is complete without this savoury snack.
Crispy and crunchy sev makes a lovely snack to serve at tea time. Love the addition of palak. I make murukku with palak but never tried making sev.
This namkeen snack is quite an interesting one. I have always made the regular sev. Now i will try this version too. It tastes just too good to have along with tea. Nice post
Palak sev looks yum, Jayashree. I suspect the ones in the market are just colour should make mine too. You make the recipe sound so esy.
Palak Sev looks so crispy and delicious. Adding palak is a great idea… Just perfect for Diwali as a savoury snack.
this crunch palak sev with a cup of tea would be so inviting for my kids’ snack box.. I love that these can be made at home too!
Palak sev looks crisp and crunchy. It is super addictive . Adding palak sounds a great idea.