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Grab necessary ingredients to make karasev (Pic 6, above).
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In a mixing bowl add sifted gram flour (Pic 1) and rice flour.
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Add required salt, here I used mix of pink salt and regular salt (Pic 4).
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Add a portion of rice flour and peppercorns to mixie/food processor (Pic 2) and grind pepper to coarse.
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But for kids sake I always grind it to slight fine powder (Pic 3), also you can replace it with store bought pepper powder.
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Add ground pepper with rice flour in to the mixing bowl (Pic 4).
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Mix all dry ingredients well, later mash butter with flour mixture (Pic 5).
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Do rub for a while and incorporate fat in to dry mixture compeltely.
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Once done the mixture looks crumbly (pic 6).
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You can add optional sesame seeds now.
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Now sprinkle water or do add required water in batches(Pic 7).
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Knead to stiff dough , while kneading when you see traces of dry flour do stop adding water(Pic 8).
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If needed sprinkle few drops of water at this time while kneading.
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Too moist dough gives soggy karasev.
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So if dough is gooey adjust with gram flour and rice flour of right proportion.
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Make it the right consistency stiff dough like shown in Picture 9.
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Grease murukku press with oil for smooth handling and assemble it.
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Use big plain round or flower shaped hole as shown below (Picture 10).
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I have made this karasev recently using 3 shapes do refer video tutorial.
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Insert karasev dough in to the murukku press (Pic 11) and release excess pressure (Pic 12).