Aloo Bhujia -- Potato Sev Recipe -- How to make Aloo Bhujia at home

Aloo bhujia,  potato sev is a very simple and easy tea time snack. We can get ready made aloo bhujia from grocery stores, but home made is always healthy and tasty. To make these, we need to have muruku maker. We get different design plates to make different varieties of muruku or sev or janthikalu. To make aloo bhujia we need to have plate with small size holes. 

Ingredients:

• Potato/Aloo - 2 Large
• Bengal Gram Flour/Besan - 2 cups
• Slat - to taste
• Garam Masala - 1 tsp
• Turmeric Powder - 1 tsp
• Oil - for deep frying

Procedure:

1. Pressure cook potatoes for three to four whistles and allow it to cool down. 
2. Peel the skin and grate potatoes in a wide bowl. 
3. Add salt, turmeric powder, garam masala and besan to the above grated potatoes.
4. Mix well and make dough, do not add water. 
5. Rub the dough with little oil and allow it to rest for 15 minutes.
6. Fix the small size hole plat to the muruku maker and grease it.
7. Heat oil in a kadai. Take small portion of the dough, fill it in the muruku maker. 
8. Reduce the flame and Press sev in the hot oil. Cook them in the medium high flame. 
9. It takes very less time to cook, cook them till they turn into yellow shade. Do not over cook.
10. If they turn into golden brown they may taste bitter. 
11. Use perforated ladle to remove them from the oil. Once removed from the oil spread them on the absorbent paper.
12. Repeat the same with the rest of the dough. Once cooled, store them in an airtight container.