"Black Olives Gundus".

Ingredients:

1. 1/4 cup all purpose flour
2. 1/4 cup Rava/Sooji
3. 1 handful of channa gram (Soaked in water for about 2 hours)
4. 3 Tb.Sp of rice flour
5. 20 black olives (Canned olives)
6. 1 Onion medium sized
7. Half a bunch of Coriander leaves and Curry leaves
8. 3-4 green Chillies
9. 1 tbsp White Vinegar
10. Salt
11. Grated Coconut 1/4 cup
12. 2 tsp Cumin seeds
13. 1 inch of Ginger
14. Oil to fry.


Method:

• Chop the onions and fresh coriander and curry leaves.
• Grind ginger , olives, green chilli , soaked channa gram and coconut into a fine paste.
• In a bowl mix rice flour, rava and all purpose flour. Add cumin seeds ,vinegar and salt to this mix.
• Add the paste into the bowl to make the dough ready to be fried in hot oil. [consistency of Dough should be as that of the Chapati dough]
• Make small round balls of size as marbles and deep fry them. Once they turn golden brown they are ready to be taken off the flame.
• Place the fried olive gundus in a tissue paper to remove the extra oil.
• Can be eaten with tomato sauce or mint chutney.[I dont have a pic to show how it looks like when prepared. Will put it up when I make them again]

Variations to the above recepie: 1. You can avoid the all purpose flour and use urad dal flour instead. It turns out a bit soft versus the crispy nature of the latter option.