Vanela Gathia

 

Hi everyone,
Today I am writing about Vanela gathia, a very famous Gujrati snack
made of gram flour and spices. Vanela is a Gujarati word which means rolled. This gathiya made with procedure involves rolling and twisting the dough in a particular style, which is a crucial part to make soft gathiya. Since these are rolled they are called vanela.

Ingredients:

3 cups Gram flour (besan)

1/4 cup oil

1/2 cup water

1/2 tbsp soda

1/2 tbsp salt

1 tsp black pepper powder

1 tsp black salt

3 cups oil for frying.

Mix water, oil, soda and salt in a bowl. Start stirring constantly. You can use blender if you want. With in 2 to 3 minutes it will turn in to white liquid.

Now take a big bowl, add strained besan. Start kneading stiff dough with liquid you have prepared. Rest it for 2 hours.

Yes, you can make gathia Immediately if you are in hurry but for that you have to soften dough pressing by both the hands for long time which is tiring.

After 2 hours, start making gathia.

Take a frying pan , add 3 cups oil for frying. Let it heat. We don't want very hot oil so take care , we need just hot oil so when you put gathia it will take few seconds to come up and by that time it will get puffed.
Let's now roll gathia.
Rub little water on your palms, take a medium size ball from dough and start pressing with both palms. After 2 to 3 minutes it will become little light in colour, and very soft in texture.
Now take wooden rolling board and start rolling gathia by your palm.
Make a nice long rope twisting it every time you lift your palm.
By this time , oil is also properly heated so add whole string in oil. Keep low flame so gathia can get time to puff. Take it out when it is fully puffed and cooked.

Same way make gathia from rest of the dough.

Mix black pepper and black salt, sprinkle on gathia. It is optional.

You can serve this gathia with fried green chilis ,chutney and masala tea.

It is easy and very tasty snack. once you start it will take just half an hour to finish.

Hope you all will like this recipe.

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