Diamond cuts

Ingredients:

Maida - 1 cup

salt - 1/2 tspn

chilli powder- 1 tspn

oil - 1 tbspn for dough

water - for dough

oil - for frying

Procedure:

In a bowl sieve the maida so that no lumps are formed for the flour.

add salt and chilli powder and mix them properly.

add water to make a dough...

make a well in the flour and add little water. keep mixing the flour with water.

slowly add water and keep mixing the flour to form a hard-soft dough.

If the water is added at one go the flour might become either hard or too soft.

The dough should be in the consistency of chapathi dough.

Once the dough is made add oil to it and knead it well.

make the dough into small balls .

Roll out each ball by adding generous amount of maida flour so as to not stick.

Roll into flat circles and keep them aside.

Now take a knife and cut the rolled out chapati vertically with 1 inch space..

once the chapathi is cut vertically take each cut slice and cut it horizantally in some angle not straight.

This will result in diamond shape cuts ready to be fried.

Keep all aside .

In a wok add oil and let it heat up.

add the diamond cuts to the oil and fry till golden brown.

once done remove the diamond cuts and place on tissue to absorb the remaining oil.

Keep it open for around 15 mins till cooled. Then it can be stored in a container.

This item will stay for more than a month.