• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
Nitha Kitchen
  • Home
  • Video Recipes
  • DIY & How-To’s
    • Homemade
    • Gardening
    • Kitchen Basics
  • About the Author
  • Navigation Menu: Social Icons

You are here: Home / Kids and Infant Corner / Basic Omapodi Sev Recipe

Basic Omapodi Sev Recipe

December 19, 2012 By Sangeetha Priya 24 Comments

Today’s Basic Omapodi Kaara Sev Recipe is a very easy snack can have as it is (plain) or goes well with Indian snack items like Mixture/Bhel Puri/Masala Puffed Rice/Misal Pav etc. This can be done very quicky but needs the special murukku achu/sev press to make this tiny savory strings :-). Now I am frequently making this sev at home as my kids love this a lot…

Ingredients

Besan/Gram Flour – 2 and 1/4 Cup (For 1 Cup of Besan 1/3 cup of rice flour is approx)
Rice Flour – 3/4th Cup
Red Chilli Powder – 2tsp or more
Butter – 3 Tbsp
Ajwain/Omam – 2tsp
Salt, Water and oil – As Needed

Method

  • Dry roast the ajwain with salt and powder it (see Note 1 & 3).
  • Mix all the ingredients except water and oil(Pic 1) and now it turns to crumbled mixture.
  • Sprinkle little water and form a soft/pliable dough as shown in Pic 2.
  • While mixing due to more gram flour it sticks in hand so at last add 2tsp of oil and coat it.
  • Heat oil for frying and make the achu/press ready, the exact press for omapodi is small holed as shown in the pic 3.
  • Add the dough to the press and rotate in circular motion over the hot oil by keep pressing with your thumb finger.
  • Within a min or 2 it cooks, flip and cook it for another minute(Pic 4).
  • Drain in paper towel and when cooled completely store in an air tight container (See Note 2).
    • This sev can be used in Farsan / Mixture / Puffed Rice /Bhel Puri/ Misal Pav etc (will post those recipes in future)…

Notes:

  1. If you are not making fine omam powder it sticks in the holes when you press, so other option is can add boiled water to the plain powdered ajwain and filter, use only the water to mix with the dough.
  2. This omapodi unlike Milagu kaara sev, no need to break while frying in the oil…
  3. I usually keep this omam powder in stock to add a pinch in kids food so if making it fresh for this snack (in small quantity) then add the fried omam with few rice flour in jar to blend well.
Old Picture in the Right Side

Post You May Like:

South Indian Lunch Box Recipe Idea 2

Sweet Methu Vada உளுந்து கச்சாயம் | Inippu Ulunthu Vadai

Kadhi Gole Recipe | Maharastrian Kadhi Gole

Filed Under: Diwali Recipes, Kids and Infant Corner, School Snack Recipes, South Indian Snacks, Traditional Kongu Foods, Traditional Sweets and Snacks Tagged With: Appetizer and Snacks, basic plain gram flour sev recipe, chick pea flour recipe, common recipe for all chaat items, crispy and crunchy kids friendly snack made with besan flour, Diwali, Farsan Mixture Recipe, Festive Specials, Gokulashtami Special, Kids n Infant Corner, Nitha Kitchen, Omapodi Recipe, Sev for Bhel Puri Recipe, Sev for Misal Pav Recipe, Sev for Mixture Recipe, the garnish made over chat items

Archives

Previous Post: « Checker Board Cake with Chocolate and Yellow Cakes
Next Post: Misal Pav with Homemade Pav Buns Recipe »

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Maha Gadde

    December 20, 2012 at 5:50 pm

    Looks Delicious..my fav
    maha

    Reply
  2. sangeethapriya

    December 20, 2012 at 4:12 am

    No dear this is not similar to Murukku. In murukku the main ingredient is rice flour and here we add less R.F whereas the gram flour plays the main role…Tastewise also they differ, only similarity is both are savory snack 🙂

    Reply
  3. Amy

    December 20, 2012 at 3:39 am

    wow!!Looks great!!This is similar to murukku?
    Contest :Agar Agar Recipe Contest
    Event :Cook like a Celebrity Chef

    Reply
  4. ♥LOVE2COOK MALAYSIA♥

    December 20, 2012 at 2:55 am

    WOW, you made it so good dear!!!

    Reply
  5. Julie

    December 20, 2012 at 1:51 am

    healthy snack,beautifully done:)
    Join EP event-Garlic OR Turmeric @ Spice n Flavors

    Reply
  6. Swathi Iyer

    December 19, 2012 at 11:33 pm

    Beautiful Omapodi Sangeetha, Love it.

    Reply
  7. Priya

    December 19, 2012 at 10:43 pm

    My daughter's favourite, she can have it anytime,beautiful crispy snack.

    Reply
  8. Shailaja Reddy

    December 19, 2012 at 10:30 pm

    Perfect snack.

    Reply
  9. DeepthiDigvijay

    December 19, 2012 at 6:21 pm

    looks awesome!!!these are always my hubbys fav!!!
    Happy to follow you, please stop by mine too!!!!
    Good Food Recipes-Christmas Food Fair

    Reply
  10. Suja Manoj

    December 19, 2012 at 6:09 pm

    Nice clicks and yum crispy snack

    Reply
  11. Beena.stephy

    December 19, 2012 at 5:23 pm

    Nice clicks . good post

    Reply
  12. divya

    December 19, 2012 at 4:50 pm

    wow mouthwatering….

    Reply
  13. PT

    December 19, 2012 at 12:51 pm

    nice clicks dear.. perfect tea time snack..

    Reply
  14. Vijayalakshmi Dharmaraj

    December 19, 2012 at 11:54 am

    all time favorite…
    Kollu Poondu/Horse gram Garlic Rice
    VIRUNTHU UNNA VAANGA

    Reply
  15. Sangeetha Nambi

    December 19, 2012 at 8:38 am

    Always my kid's favy…
    http://recipe-excavator.blogspot.com

    Reply
  16. sara's TASTY BUDS

    December 19, 2012 at 7:50 am

    lovely clicks sangeetha

    Reply
  17. Vimitha Anand

    December 19, 2012 at 7:44 am

    my favorite tea time snack… Looks so inviting

    Reply
  18. priya satheesh

    December 19, 2012 at 5:52 am

    wow…my fav snack..Looks so tempting!

    Reply
  19. DivyaGCP

    December 19, 2012 at 5:50 am

    This is my favorite snack..You have made it perfectly.. Looks delicious..

    Reply

Trackbacks

  1. Pudina Sev in Air Fryer Recipe - Nitha Kitchen says:
    October 10, 2022 at 11:13 pm

    […] snack made using gluten free flours ie chickpea / Gram flour and rice flour combo and can be made plain or mixed with mint, potato, coriander leaves, red chili powder, pepper, lemon juice so and so. This […]

    Reply
  2. Milagu Karasev Video Recipe - Nitha Kitchen says:
    November 13, 2021 at 11:35 am

    […] Spicy Omapodi/Plain Sev (starting from left corner) […]

    Reply
  3. Air Fryer Karasev Video Recipe - Nitha Kitchen says:
    November 5, 2021 at 5:16 pm

    […] My 2021 Diwali preparations made upon kids request so all homemade except those in the box on the left side which was gifted to kids by Tamil school🪔 Mint Bhujia / Pudina Sev in Air Fryer (recipe soon)🪔 Air Fryer Namkeen Mixture (recipe soon)Besan Burfi (will add video tutorial in a day)🪔 Bournvita Burfi🪔 Yellow Burfi🪔 Badhusa🪔 Instant Mix Gulab Jamun🪔 Boondi Ladoo 🪔 Boondi Mixture🪔 Kara Sev in Air Fryer🪔 Omapodi 🪔 […]

    Reply
  4. Kara Boondi Mixture | South Indian Traditional Mixture Video Recipe - Nitha Kitchen says:
    October 27, 2018 at 9:29 am

    […] Fried Ingredients Sev/Omapodi Milagu Kaara Sev Thattai Ola/Ottu/Ribbon Pakoda Thenkuzhal Murukku/Quinoa Murukku/Pottu kadalai […]

    Reply
  5. Misal Pav with Homemade Pav Buns | Popular Street Food All From Scratch - Nitha Kitchen says:
    May 1, 2018 at 11:28 am

    […] out the stepwise Plain sev/Omapodi n Milagu Kaara Sev […]

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recipe Rating




Primary Sidebar

Categories

Follow us :-)

Nitha's Kitchen

Archives

Latest Pins!

my foodgawker gallery

Copyright© 2025 Nitha Kitchen All Rights Reserved