Tomato sabudana fryums / Sabakki sandige a popular deep fried snack from South India. A great accompaniment with any meal. Easy summer recipe and used throughout the year.
Wash the sabudana or sabakki well and add one cup water. Keep this aside for 2 hours. This helps the sabudana to absorb some amount of water.
Preparation of tomato masala
Finely chopped tomatoes are ground into fine paste with green chilies and cumin. Next cook this masala in thick bottomed pan. Fry well until the raw smell vanishes.
Add the soaked sabudana to this tomato masala and mix. Next add water to this mixture, salt as per taste and cook for exactly 10 minutes on low heat.
Keep this mixture for 6 to 8 hours or overnight. The pearls get cooked and fluff up.
Sun drying and frying of tomato sabudana fryums
Tomato sabudana fryums mixture is ready for sun drying.
Take a thick plastic sheet or cotton dhoti. In a bowl mix water with one tablespoon of oil. Grease water oil mixture on the sheet.
Place one spoon of sabudana fryums mixture and spread lightly. Place all the mixture on the sheet equally spaced.
Sun dry them under direct sunlight for 2 to 3 days. Fryums should be completely dried before storing them. Store in airtight container.
Deep fry the fryums in hot oil at medium heat. Serve them with any meal of the day or as evening snacks.