Rail Palaram

Rail Palaaram

Translates To Train Snack !!

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This is Karimnagar district’s (Part of Telangana) recipe and popularly known as rail palaram across Telangana state. We know Secunderabad is headquarters of South Central Railways and several trains pass through twin cities to different parts of the country. Train journey is so much fun and earlier people used to carry their home cooked food for consumption during travel particularly this recipe for the travel. It used to help them stay healthy and keep away from diseases. But these days due to life style changes and also since food🥘 is abundantly available everywhere, travellers are rarely taking home cooked food. Now, this pandemic urges us all to follow our elders right?

Try this recipe next time when you travel 😁 or just like that as an evening snack or breakfast item. Here I present authentic recipe rail palaram to please our taste buds. Njoy Cooking, Serving n Savoring!

Author: Akshayakumbham

Course: Snacks

Cuisine: Telangana

Servings: 3-4

Ingredients:

Rice flour: 1 cup

Water: 1 cup

Salt: As required

Tempering:

Oil: 2 tsp

Mustard seeds: 1 tsp

Cumin: 1 tsp

Black gram: 1 tsp

Curry leaves: A sprig

Green chillies: 2 nos.

Asafoetida: A pinch

Finely chopped ginger: 1 tsp

Fresh grated coconut: 1 tbsp(Optional)

Crushed cashews: For garnishing

Method of preparation:

🌾. Take one cup of water in a vessel and bring it to boil. Now add one cup of rice flour. Switch of the flame and mix thoroughly without forming any lumps. Grease your palms with little ghee and Make a smooth dough.

🌾. Now make tiny balls (which are almost peanuts size ) from the prepared dough. Now carefully grease the idly moulds with ghee and carefully place all the prepared tiny balls in them.

🌾. Steam them in a pressure cooker or idly cooker for 10-15 minutes or till they are completely cooked.

🌾. Heat kadai and pour oil for tempering. Add mustard seeds, cumin seeds and black gram. When mustard splutter add a pinch of asafoetida, chopped ginger, Chopped green chilli and fresh coconut.