Congress kadalebeeja recipe | How to make congress kadle beeja or kadlekai | Spicy roasted peanuts
By Latha on September 19th, 2016
Congress kadelkai or Karnataka style spicy roasted peanuts recipe explained with step by step pictures and a video. Congress kadlekai or kadle beeja is a very popular and tasty snacks from Karnataka. Preparing congress kadlekai at home is very easy. This is a healthy and mouth watering spicy snacks. Best served with a cup of tea. Preparing these spicy peanuts is very easy but you need to have good patience while roasting the peanuts. Kadle kai or peanuts should be roasted under medium flame without burning them.
Congress kadlekai or spicy peanuts is a guilt free snacks recipe. I have already shared some guilt free snacks recipes like carrot-mung dal salad, Mangalore churumuri, girmit, kadle usli and nuchinunde recipes.
If you are looking for more snacks recipes then do check our Karnataka snacks recipes section.
I have made a video on this recipe with Kannada narration, which I have embedded it below. Kindly have a look.
Preparation time: 30 min
Cooking time: 10 min
Serves: 1 cup
Ingredients: (measuring cup used = 240ml)
- 1 cup peanuts or ground nuts or kadlekai or shenga
- 1 tsp oil
- 1/4 tsp red chili powder (adjust as per your spice level)
- 1/4 tsp pepper powder (adjust as per your spice level)
- 1/4 tsp amchur powder (optional)
- 2 big pinch of turmeric powder
- 2 big pinch of hing or asafoetida
- 7 - 8 curry leaves
- Salt as per your taste
Instructions for making congress kadlekai :
- In a thick bottomed pan roast the peanuts until slightly brown under low medium flame. Peanuts will also start crackling. Take care not to burn the peanuts.
- Wait until roasted peanuts are cool. Rub, deskin and halve the peanuts.
- After that separate the peels and deskinned peanuts. I use a big wide plate and toss them.
- Now take a tsp of oil in a frying pan and heat it. Add in curry leaes and fry until crisp.
- Reduce the flame and add in all the spice powders like chili powder, pepper powder, asafoetida, amchur powder and turmeric powder. Give a quick stir.
- Immediately add in deskinned peanuts
- Mix well for a minute under very low flame and switch off the stove.
- Add in salt and mix well. Keep it aside.
- Once it is warm, powder the curry leaves and mix well using hands. Doing so will help in blending the curry leaves well with the peanuts.
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