onion pakoda

Onion pakoda is one of the popular street side snacks in Tamilnadu. I have tried making these pakodas sometime back but it didn't come out well. It turned out to be very hard. My husband loves these pakodas and so when i came across them in Sumi's blog last week, I thought should give it a try. I completely followed her recipe(except that I added hot oil, coriander leaves and saunf) along with her tips .It really turned out nice and crispy... This recipe from Sumi's kitchen is my contribution to the MBP 'Street food ' started by 'coffee of spicecafe' and hosted by 'Sia of Monsoon spice'.

Its Completely Sumi's Recipe and Iam just posting it for my own records.

Ingredients

Gram flour/besan- 1 cup

rice flour- 1 cup

cooking soda- 1/4 tsp

red onions- 2 medium/large chopped into thin strips

green chillies- 2 chopped finely

garlic- 3 cloves- crushed

ginger- a small piece - crushed

cumin seeds- 1/4 tsp

saunf- 1/4 tsp

chilli powder- 1 tsp

curry leaves- a few chopped

coriander leaves- a few chopped finely

hot oil-3 tsp

oil for deep frying

salt to taste

Method

Take all the ingredients except oil, in a bowl and mix well with hands . Heat oil in a kadai and when hot add 3 tsp of that to the besan mixture. mix well and divide the mixture into 4 or 5 portions.Take one portion into a plate.Sprinkle very little water and then mix it slightly with your hand.Be careful not to sprinkle very little water as the mixture should not become soggy.

Take some mixture , press it with ur hands and drop it in hot oil. Take it out when they are slightly golden brown and drain the excess oil by placing it in a paper towel. continue with the other portions too. Serve hot with tea.

Store the rest in air tight container.

Sumi's tip:

If you add/sprinkle water to the whole batch, the flour will soak up the water and the pakodas will not be crispy.So always do it in small batches.

Fellow Bloggers Recipes

I have learnt a lot of recipes after I started to blog. These are a few recipes from my fellow bloggers,which I tried in my kitchen and loved by my Family members.Thanks guys!!!!

1) Paneer Tikkas from Krithika's Manpasand
Tikkas ready to bake

Tikkas ready to eat
I also Sauted the rest of the chopped veggies and paneer in a pan with little oil and they turned out great too.

Check out for the recipe here.

2) Mushroom Fried Rice from Seema's Recipe Junction.

Check out the recipe here.

3) Gobi Masala from Priya's Kitchen.

Check for the recipe Here.

4) Banana Halva from Soumya's Home Spices.

Check out for the recipe here.

5) Paruppu Usili from RP's Myworkshop.

Check out for the recipe here.

Aval Payasam

Blogger friends recipe (BFR)#2

Aval payasam


A few months in blogging, I have learnt a lot in cooking from my blogger friends. I have tried a few recipes from them and feel really happy to say that almost all of them were succesful. Here is one such recipe ... .I wanted to make Aval payasam for a long time and when I saw this recipe in My dhaba ,I decided to try it out for Saraswathi Pooja. This is the first time Iam making Aval Payasam , and believe me it tasted divine...Thanks VK Narayan for the lovely recipe.
Click for the recipe Here...
I made this by following the exact recipe of My dhaba's... But as i did not have saffron with me I just added a pinch of yellow food colour.. This is a great recipe and You will surely love it.

Paneer Tikka Rolls - BFR #1

Blogger Friends recipes (BFR)#1

Trying out new recipes is one thing I always love to do.When I go thru the fellow bloggers blogs I used to bookmark some recipes which I find interesting, so that i can give it a try. I wanted to add those recipes ,which I tried ,to My CookBook.

I wanted to try Latha's (Masala Magic) paneer tikka rolls ever since I saw the recipe in her blog. Today for dinner I tried it and it was a big hit. It was very Delicious. As I didn’t have potato, which was in her recipe , I used some peas in the place of potato. I did seasoning with mustard seeds and curry leaves for the tikka curry too. These are the changes I did with her recipe.
Here goes the Recipe…