Cowpea Lollipop

#Snacks
#Kids special

Ingredients for Cowpea lollipop:

1. Cowpea (leseramaah) 100 gm 
2. Few toothpicks 
3. Garam masala 
4. Rice flour and corn flour (1:1) 
5. Turmeric 
6. Pinch of hing (optional) 
7. Salt to taste 
8. Oil for frying 
9. Chat masala 
10. Black salt.

Recipe:

1. Make spirals with cowpea and close them with toothpicks. 
2. Steam the cowpea spirals in the steamer (Don't boil) for 2/3 minutes on the high flame. 
3. Dry them with tissue papers and keep aside. 
4. Make a thin batter of rice flour and corn flour (1:1), adding garam masala, salt, turmeric, pinch of hing and water. Batter is ready now.
5. Add steam cowpea spirals to the batter and keep for a minute. 
6. Heat the oil, pull out the cowpea spirals with batter and drop them in the hot oil. Fry till cowpea spirals turn golden brown. 
7. Keep them on the plate with tissue paper to drain out the oil. 
8. Add chat masala , black salt and mix well. 

Your cowpea lollipop (spiral) is ready to eat.

Thank you.

Shruti Sarmah 
(শ্ৰুতি শৰ্মা)