Khanum Plain Poppadoms 200 g (Pack of 10)

Some brands of fry at home poppadoms are kind of weird, hard and oily. These aren't, at around 190c they puff up instantly and turn out crisp and nice just like the ones in curry places.

Really excellent authentic poppadums and a very large pack for £8.81 - 10 packs, each with 10-11 poppadums. Some reviewers are microwaving these, but best result will be when they are deep fried in oil, like a restaurant would. Remove the basket from your domestic deep fryer, heat it up to max (190C) then drop the poppadums in two at a time, which helps them stay flatter. Use a metal utensil to push them under the oil and to flatten them while they are still floppy. Pull them out as soon as they stop fizzing, any longer and they will darken and the flavour is not as good. Drain in a vertical rack over paper towels. Traditional poppadum accompaniments: lime pickle (just buy pataks). Onion salad (2 thinly sliced Dutch onions with a tiny proportion of sliced tomato, cucumber and coriander leaf added, plus half a teaspoon colmans mint sauce, a small sprinkle of salt and two squirts of jif lemon juice - mix it all thoroughly then leave covered in fridge for 4 hours for onion to become milder), mango chutney diluted with water and blitzed in food processor to a runny consistency; Yoghurt sauce, 250g Greek yoghurt, 100g milk, 2 teaspoons mint sauce and 1 table spoon of white sugar, mixed well. Often a small amount of yellow food colour will be added to this one. So there you have your poppadums and pukka accompaniments - enjoy!!

You get around a dozen a pack, as a rough guide. Whenever you go for an 'Indian' meal, the staff will ALWAYS encourage you to order poppadoms, as the profit margin is massive. Same for buying their boiled rice, anything from £3 a portion upwards. I have already cooked rice frozen beforehand (you always have leftover rice) and this reheats in 3-5 mins at 800w in the microwave.Worth thinking about, as it's the cheapest way to fill up. You rarely find a pack this size in the supermarkets, so a bargain. £9 for a pack of over 100, which they sell for anything up to £1 each.

Best ever buy, lots for your money, easy to make too. Tastes just like the ones you get in restaurants. UPDATE Nov20.... Have just run out of these and went to buy more form this seller but all sold out! These are the best I have ever bought. I make them in oil and leave on kitchen roll to dry, they are dry in under a minuet. Hope this seller get them in again real soon

Value is great, the same amount from my local takeaway would cost nearly £100, although admittedly I don't have to cook those :) Flavour likewise - Can't tell the difference between these and the restaurant poppadoms. Only reason they got 4 stars instead of 5 is that the preparation instructions say to use smoking hot oil. When doing this, I found they cooked *too* quickly, with a risk of over-cooking and leaving the oil with small black particles in it (presumably tiny bits of burnt poppadum). I should add that oil was fine after filtering through a piece of kitchen towel. I got better results with hot oil, rather than smoking. UPDATE - October 2020: Pretty much used them all up now. More recently we have been doing them in the microwave: 30 seconds each is a bit slower than frying and they don't expand out as well, but there's no messing with hot oil which is better both from a cleaning point of view and presumably health wise too :)

Living alone, I only need maybe 2 or 3 poppadoms at a time and I am very pleased to report that these cook perfectly in a microwave. My machine is only a very small 600W effort (also bought from Amazon!) and it cooks them perfectly, one at a time. I put a paper kitchen towel on the turntable, place poppadom on that and switch on. I don't use timers etc but just keep an eye on the poppadom through the micro window. When it has risen quite well I just open the door, flip it over and give it another 20 seconds or so. Probably just under a minute total in my small machine. The results are perfectly crisp and snap and crackle just like a poppadom should. Great product. (And saves a fortune compared to supermarkets' inferior offerings.)

Great Product. If you learn how to cook these properly in very hot oil, you will never go back to those supermarket ready to eat microwaved excuses for poppadoms. The only thing I will say is to cook them as late as possible before serving. Only then are they at their best. Any longer and they start absorbing water from the atmosphere and lose that crispyness you associate with those you buy in Indian restaurants. I know I sound like a poppadum anorak, but am I bovered-face bovered.

Great Poppadoms, but thought I’d ordered 10 packs of 200g, only received one pack so very expensive poppadoms £1.00 each!!!!!!!!!!!!!