Papads is a thin crispy wafer like dish. It is one of the indian traditional food item. It is a thin wafer like product, circular in shape, rolled from dough made out of pulse flour, with added spices. Papads are served as an appetizer with coriander chutney, biryanis, pulaos and curries. There are variety of Papads like mix masala papad, red chilly papad, garlic papad, and potato papad.



* Fist soak rice in water for two to three hours then drain away the excess water. After that put the rice and water in a blender and blend it for a while. Finally pour the ground rice inside a cloth bag and drain away the water.
* For making a hard dough add black pepper, salt, and cumin to wet rice flour.
* The dough can be divided into balls and roll each ball into small wafer thin circles about six inches in diameter like roti.
* Dry them for a day or two.
* Deep fry each for few minutes. You can store it in boxes.
* Papads are cooked by deep frying in oil which causes them to expand and crisped.
* Papads may also be cooked by roasting them over an open flame in a toaster oven, microwave oven, on gas or electric stove. You can roast Papads within 40-45 seconds.

Ingredients used are black gram, rice flour, peanut oil and moong dal

* Papads are traditionally prepared using black gram bean flour, rice flour, lentil flour with salt.
* The ingredients are made into a tight dough and formed into a thin, round shape it is similar to a tortilla.
* Once the dough is prepared papad can be seasoned with a variety of different ingredients such as chillies, cummin, garlic and black pepper.
* They are also made out of potatoes mixed in the dough.
* Plain Papad is made using moong dal, udad dal with salt with condiments of edible oil.
* Masala Papad is made using redchilies, green chilli, black pepper, jerara, with pudina added depending on the flavor of papad.