Topic: Poppadoms

[snowdog]

I tried this yesterday just out of interest - i usually deep fry as per the packet instructions.

When you microwave a poppadom, an 8cm disk remains an 8cm disk - it just goes all 'poppadommy'.

When you deep fry it, it more or less doubles in size.

The deep-fried poppadom is also of a lighter texture, whereas the microwaved one is closer to a tortilla chip (though not quite that far) in terms of hardness - and it doesn't make that much difference whether you paint it with oil or not (though oiled was slightly less heavy). No doubt this explains why some restaurants I've been too seem to have quite hard poppadoms.

I'll stick with my deep-fried ones. They're much more like those I grew up with