Roasting papadums over an open flame on a stove, one of several methods of cooking them.

A stack of roasted papadums, ready to be served.

The papadum (singular: papad) is a thin South Asian wafer, sometimes described as a cracker or flatbread, typically made from lentil, chickpea, black gram or rice flour. Map of South Asia (see note on Kashmir) South Asia, also known as Southern Asia, is a southern geopolitical region of the Asian continent comprising territories on and in proximity to the Indian subcontinent. ... In cooking, a wafer can refer to a crisp, sweet, very thin flat dry cake which is often used to decorate ice creams. ... A Cheez-It cracker. ... Crisp bread Making Tortillas A flatbread is a simple bread made from flattened dough. ... Binomial name Lens culinaris Medikus The lentil (Lens culinaris) is a brushy annual plant of the legume family, grown for its lens-shaped seeds. ... Gram flour (also known as chana dall, chana flour, besan or chickpea flour) is an ingredient used in Indian cuisine. ... Binomial name Vigna mungo (L.) Hepper Urd, urd bean, urad or black gram (Vigna mungo) is a bean grown in southern Asia. ... Species Oryza glaberrima Oryza sativa Rice is two species (Oryza sativa and Oryza glaberrima) of grass, native to tropical and subtropical southern & southeastern Asia and to Africa, which together provide more than one fifth of the calories consumed by humans[1]. (The term wild rice can refer to wild species...

Salt and peanut oil are added to make a dough, which can be flavored with seasonings such as, for example, chili, cumin, garlic or black pepper. A magnified crystal of a salt (halite/sodium chloride) A salt, in chemistry, is any ionic compound composed of cations (positively charged ions) and anions (negative ions) so that the product is neutral (without a net charge). ... An organic oil derived from peanuts, noted to have the slight aroma and taste of its parent legume. ... Dough Dough is a paste made out of any cereals (grains) or leguminous crops by grinding with small amount of water. ... The chile pepper, chili pepper, or chilli pepper, or simply chile, is the fruit of the plant Capsicum from the nightshade family, Solanaceae. ... Binomial name Cuminum cyminum L. Cumin (Cuminum cyminum) is a flowering plant in the family Apiaceae, native to the eastern Mediterranean region east to India. ... Binomial name Allium sativum L. Percentages are relative to US RDI values for adults. ... Binomial name Piper nigrum L. Black pepper (Piper nigrum) is a flowering vine in the family Piperaceae, cultivated for its fruit, which is usually dried and used as a spice and seasoning. ...

The dough is shaped into a tortilla-like round and can be cooked by deep-frying, roasting over an open flame, toasting, or microwaving, depending on the desired texture. Traditional tortilla making. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Papadums are typically served as an accompaniment to a meal, an appetizer or a snack and eaten topped with chutney or other dips. Appetizer has several meanings: Appetizer is another name for Hors doeuvre, a meal served before the main dishes of a meal. ... A snack food is seen in Western culture as a type of food that is not meant to be eaten as part of one of the main meals of the day (breakfast, lunch, supper). ... A chutney (British spelling), chatni (Urdu or Hindi transliteration) or catni (archaic transliteration) is a term for a variety of sweet and spicy condiments, originally from South Asia. ...

Papadums are made in different sizes. The smaller ones can be eaten like a snack chip and the larger ones can be used to make wraps. A snack food is seen in Western culture as a type of food that is not meant to be eaten as part of one of the main meals of the day (breakfast, lunch, supper). ... A Wrap is a food product consisting of meat, lettuce or other traditional sandwich fillings wrapped in a pita or tortilla shell. ...

Other connections

Papad occurs in a well known tongue twister - "Kaachu papad, Paku papad" (raw papad, fried papad), something similar to "Good blood, Bad blood"

External links

• Papads & papadum - spicy Indian crackers
• AskOxford.com - How do you spell 'poppadom'?