Meanwhile, Yogambal Sundar, a 57-year-old celebrity chef from Chennai, is also a classically trained Carnatic music vocalist and Veena player.
This recipe yields light, tasty and crispy thattai that you can make for a tea time snack. Making perfectly crunchy traditional rice flour snacks begins with rinsing the rice well, draining and drying. Then milled to flour as the fresh ground flour enhances the aroma & texture of these snacks.
Born and raised by a joint middle-class family in the quaint Thiruvanmiyur locality of Chennai, life was rather straightforward for Yogambal, whose father ran a newspaper agency and mother was a homemaker who composed bhajans. “My childhood was pretty straight forward involving school, music and household chores.