{"id":1002,"slug":"deep-fried-chickpea-dough-balls-chyueeam","title":"Deep Fried Chickpea Dough Balls (Chyueeam)","description":"Cheyeeam are deep-fried balls of ground chickpeas.","ingredients_raw":["½ kg kadalai paruppu (Bengal gram, small brown chickpeas)","½ kg vellam (jaggery, unrefined palm sugar)","10 elackai (cardamom pods)","½ kg maida mavu (refined wheat flour)","Water","Salt, to taste","1 litre cooking oil"],"ingredients_norm":["kadalai paruppu","vellam","elackai","maida mavu","water","salt","cooking oil"],"steps":["Soak kadalai paruppu in clean water for at least 8 hours. They will double in size, so allow extra water for them to soak up.","Boil kadalai paruppu. This should take about 40 minutes in a regular pot on the stove, or about 9 minutes in a pressure cooker (plus 10 minutes to depressurise).","Grind boiled kadalai paruppu with the jaggery and elachi, without adding any water, to make a dough.","Make small balls with the dough.","Make a thin batter with the maida and water. Add salt as needed.","Dip the dough balls in the batter.","Pour the oil in a pan. Heat until a small piece of dough floats and bubbles when added.","Add a few battered dough balls. Deep fry individually until golden."],"categories":["Indian recipes","Vegan recipes","Recipes using chickpea","Recipes using cardamom","Recipes using wheat flour","Recipes using jaggery"],"prep_time_minutes":50,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":530,"servings":null,"yield_text":null,"difficulty":"medium","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Deep_Fried_Chickpea_Dough_Balls_(Chyueeam)","source_ref":"4515538","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Deep_Fried_Chickpea_Dough_Balls_(Chyueeam)&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"e06560040c022dcc259415e651db803ed2ca52be80aea4fb16f0939d15e8489d","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:00Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:00Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/deep-fried-chickpea-dough-balls-chyueeam"}