Indian Cooking Recipe for Festivals: Seedai This recipe is prepared on Krishna Ashtami (Krishna Jayanthi). Ingredients: Rice flour - 2 cups (400gm) (prepared from soaked rice) Fried black gram dal powder - 2 tea spoons Coconut scraping - 1 cup Cumin - 1 tea spoon Sesame(Til)seeds - 1 tea spoon Asafoetida (hing) powder - 1 tea spoon Butter for mixing - 1 table spoon Oil for frying Salt to taste Method : Prepare hard dough with rice flour, black gram dal powder, asafoetida, til seeds, butter, coconut scraping and salt with little water Make very small balls and dry them on a piece of cloth for one hour Heat oil in a deep pan and fry the seedai till they turn brown and crisp in medium heat Remove the seedai from oil with a ladle with holes and store in air tight container