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Kunal Kapur shares masala nimki recipe on Instagram
Hindustan Times··29 Sept
Chef Kunal Kapur on September 27 posted an Instagram recipe for masala nimki, a flour-and-spice chai snack. The dough uses 2 cups all-purpose flour with ghee or oil, cumin, carom, crushed black pepper, kalonji and salt. He rests the stiff dough 10 to 15 minutes before rolling, shaping and deep frying. Warm pieces are tossed in a dry masala mix.
Prism
What It Means For You
- Home cooks get a stepwise masala nimki method using pantry spices and deep frying on medium-low heat.
- Kapur says low heat matters so the inside cooks crunchy instead of staying chewy.
- He advises cooling completely before storing the snack in an airtight container.
What's Happening
- The September 27 Instagram post calls the snack crispy, crunchy and packed with masala for tea time.
- Dough ingredients include 2 cups maida, 3 to 4 tablespoons ghee or oil, and measured seed spices.
- The finishing masala blends black salt, regular salt, amchur, black pepper and Kashmiri chilli powder.
How the snack is shaped
- After resting, dough is rolled thin, layered with a ghee-flour paste, then rolled into a cylinder.
- Pieces about 1 cm thick are rolled again and folded into sealed triangles before frying.
- Hindustan Times republished the recipe as a lifestyle snack feature on September 29.
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