Bombay Mixture

Bombay Mixture / Homemade Bombay Mixture is a crispy and tasty tea time snack made with a deep fried  crispy mixture of sev, whole masoor dal with skin and boondi, Bombay Mixture recipe is given below with step by step photos.

The following ingredients are needed to prepare Homemade Bombay Mixture.

Ingredients:-

Rice flour.                  -2 cup
Besan /gram flour.     -1 cup
Turmeric powder.      -1/2 tsp
Masoor dal with skin.-1 &1/4 cup
Black salt.                  -as required
Water.                         -as required
Oil.                             -1tbsp
Oil.                             -for frying

Instructions:-

Wash and soak whole masoor dal with skin in water for 2 hours. Then drain the excess water and keep it for drying in a strainer.

Method:-

1). In a bowl add rice flour (idiyappam powder), besan (gram flour), turmeric powder and 1tbsp of oil and mix well. Add enough water and knead well and make it into a soft dough. Take two lemon size portion of the prepared dough and keep it aside seperately for making boondi.

2). Grease the sev maker with little oil and fill the dough into the sev maker and close it with lid. Deep fry the thin strands of the sev in hot oil till it turns crisp from all the sides. Remove the fried crispy sev from hot oil and transfer to a bowl to cool.

3). In a small bowl add seperately kept two lemon size dough.Add enough water and mix well to make it into a dosa batter consistency. Pour the batter in hot oil through a perforated spoon and deep fry it till crispy. Remove the fried boondi fom hot oil and transfer to a tissue paper to absorb excess oil.

4). Drain water completely from soaked whole masoor dal and fry it in hot oil till it becomes crispy.

5). Transfer the fried  crispy masoor dal to a tissue paper to absorb excess oil.

6). Crush the deep fried sev into small pieces and transfer to a mixing bowl.

7). In the mixing bowl mix together crushed sev, fried boondi and fried masoor dal. At the end add about 1/4 tsp of black salt to it little by little and combine all the ingredients.

 8). Once cooled to room temperature store the bombay mixture in a clean and dry airtight container.

Crispy and tasty homemade Bombay Mixture is ready to serve with a cup of hot tea or coffee.