What is Papad? Paaperdum Making Papad

Papad is a very thin dried round flat wafer made of Urad beans, Mung beans, or Rice

In South India, Papad is called Paaperdum

Normally, Papad is either roasted on open flame or deep fried and served as a appetizer with Indian meal.

The most common Papad sold is made by Lijjat, an organization to empower women and employs only women.

Punjabi Papad is about 3 times as thick as the Lijjat Papad and made with whole Urad beans.

The basic process follows

1. Grind skin-less whole beans in to a very fine Atta flour.

2. Add Cracked cumin seeds, crushed red chili pepper, cracked black peppercorns, Baking soda (optional), salt, peanut oil, ground fresh garlic

3. Mix all ingredients together. Add very little water to make a very hard dough. Fold and beat to knead dough. It is a very hard dough.

4. Divide dough in to smaller balls. Take e ball and roll it out as a rope. Cut a rope into pieces. Roll each piece out in to a 7" round flat bread. Use dry bean flour to flour working surface.

One pound of bean flour will make about 50 breads. One pound of bean will make five balls, each ball will make 10 rope pieces, or Papad.

5. Dry in hot sun

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