Spicy Masala peanuts recipe | Peanut pakoda recipe – Easy to make tea time snack recipe, with full video and step-by-step instructions.

Masala Peanut recipe, peanuts coated in spices and deep-fried in oil. This is one of the popular tea-time snacks in Tamilnadu. We get this in most of the sweet stalls and roadside tea shops. I have posted 2 different versions of the masala peanut recipe in Jeyashris kitchen. One among them is a healthy microwave version.

This is a highly addictive snack. We are adding gram flour, rice flour, fennel seeds, garlic, and curry leaves to peanuts. The peanuts are coated with flour and spices and deep-fried in oil. You can serve this as a tea-time snack or as an accompaniment for curd rice, sambar rice, or any rice of your choice.

If you want to make a no onion no garlic version of this spicy masala peanuts, you can skip the garlic, instead, you can add a few mint leaves.

You can also check out, cashew pakoda, pattanam pakoda , microwave masala peanuts, Congress kadelekai recipe.

  • In a mixie jar add the fennel seeds, garlic and curry leaves.
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  • Grind this into a little coarse paste by adding little water.
  • Keep this aside.
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  • In a bowl add the raw peanuts.
  • Add water and wash this once and drain the water.
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  • Now add the red chili powder, salt, gram flour, rice flour, 1 tbsp hot oil and the ground mixture. Hot oil gives a nice crispiness to the peanuts, so do not omit.
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  • Mix well and if needed sprinkle little water and coat the masala on the peanuts.
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  • Heat oil for deep frying.
  • Sprinkle the masala coated peanut mixture in batches.
  • Deep fry in medium flame. Fry on both sides.
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  • Once the shh sound of the oil subsides take it out from oil.
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  • Drain in a kitchen towel.
  • Repeat the same for the rest of the peanuts.
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  • Deep fry few curry leaves in the hot oil and once it becomes crispy add this to the fried peanuts.
  • Once it is cool, store in an airtight box.
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  • This masala peanuts stays good for a week.
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Masala peanuts | peanut pakoda recipe

Ingredients

  • 1 cup raw peanuts
  • 2 tsp red chili powder
  • 3 tbsp besan | gram flour | kadalaimaavu
  • 3 tbsp rice flour
  • 1 tbsp hot oil
  • Oil for deep frying
  • Salt as needed
  • Few curry leaves

To grind

  • 1 tsp fennel seeds
  • 3 cloves garlic
  • Few curry leaves

Instructions

  • In a mixie jar add the fennel seeds, garlic and curry leaves.
  • Grind this into a little coarse paste by adding little water.
  • Keep this aside.
  • In a bowl add the raw peanuts.
  • Add water and wash this once and drain the water.
  • Now add the red chili powder, salt, gram flour, rice flour, 1 tbsp hot oil and the ground mixture.
  • Mix well and if needed sprinkle little water and coat the masala on the peanuts.
  • Heat oil for deep frying.
  • Sprinkle the masala coated peanut mixture in batches.
  • Deep fry in medium flame. Fry on both sides.
  • Once the shh sound of the oil subsides take it out from oil.
  • Drain in a kitchen towel.
  • Repeat the same for the rest of the peanuts.
  • Deep fry few curry leaves in the hot oil and onceit becomes crispy add this to the fried peanuts.
  • Once it is cool, store in an airtight box.
  • This masala peanuts stays good for a week.

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