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I know Wm posted a long time ago, a recipe for them.

Can any-one help? I think I've got the right sort of flour thingy and would dearly love to make some.

Ta muchly xx

Dead easy, Ton, you need Gram flour (but strong white bread flour or lentil flour will do) a bit of unflavoured yoghurt and some salt.

Make a stiff dough and roll out the poppadoms from walnut sized dough balls, then roll into very thin discs. Drop the discs into hot oil till they bubble and crisp.

ETA if you cannot get Gram flour you can make your own if you can get tins of chickpeas. Just let them dry out and blitz them to a powder.

That's how I make mine WM - dry out a jar of chickpeas and grind to a powder.

Forgot to mention yoghurt v water to make the dough.

I once used water and the poppadoms fought like hell when dropped in the hot oil. Youhurt makes them less volatile.

I've got maize flour - would that do?

And to dry the chick peas, should I put them in the oven and then take the skins off?

Ton, maize flour says to me "tortillas", but they are not a million miles removed from poppadoms so it might do.

Making flour from chickpeas I just blitz the whole things. Drain them, pat them dry with a paper towel and spread them out on a tray and leave in a warm sunny place or pop them in the oven at its lowest setting. Keep moving them about so that they do not cook.

When you make the poppadoms you can flavour them with cumin or garlic or chili powder or whatever takes your fancy.

I know, WM, but that's the nearest I've been able to find. I used it when I was doing a chinesey type dinner, as a thickener. Worked a treat too

I've alays got jars of chickpeas, so I'll do them tomorrow too and see what happens

For what they cost you could try both, maize and chickpea, to see which is best.

Unmitigated disaster.

You know when you have one of those days when things aren't going right?

The flat breads had to be rescused, the curry was okay - ish - Grumpy insisted on chips - and then neither the chick pea wotsits or the maize thingy were nice.

In fact, they ended up in the bin, before I attempted to do anything with them.

Just one of those days.

As Grumpy said - if you don't have the right things to use, then it ain't gong to go right.

He is right, but I'm still annoyed and have spent the last couple of hours trying to wrok out how I could have done the chick pea thingy differently.

And forget the other on

It's a shame the poppadoms didn't work, Ton, because when they do they are fab.

As an alternative for the future you could try Naans or Chapaties. They really are dead easy to make - foolproof.