Healthy Food Recipes - Onion Pakoda!
Posted on: 29/Dec/2014 11:53:50 AM
Ingredients:
- Onion 2 cups finely chopped
- Besan Flour 2 cups
- Rice Flour 2 spoons
- Ginger Garlic Paste ½ spoon
- Green Chilli 2 nos (grinded)
- Else Red Chilli Powder/ Sambar Powder ½ spoon
- Asafoetida a pinch
- Curry leaves a few (finely chopped)
- Mint Leaves a few (finely chopped) (optional)
- Baking powder a pinch
- Salt as required
- Cooking oil for making dough and for fry
Method:
- In a mixing bowl, add Besan flour, rice flour, salt, asafoetida, a pinch of baking powder, ginger garlic paste, chilli powder, curry leaves, mint leaves one after the other and mix well.
- Leave it aside for about 5 minutes, so that the water consistency in the onion will allow the dough to blend well.
- Heat about 6 spoons of oil in a kadai and add it to this mix.
- Add 2 spoon of water and blend the mix well.
- This dough ought to be very tight in consistency and not be saggy like batter, else there is a possibility of absorbing abundant of oil while frying.
- Heat the kadai with require quantity of oil for frying.
- Spread the dough as a small pieces and remove once it turns golden brown colour.
- Hot Onion Pakoda is ready!
- Sprinkle it with chopped coriander leaves and serve hot!
Note:
- Instead of directly adding the baking powder, it is always better to mix the baking soda in well in 2 spoon of water and add it to the dough.
- Adding 2 spoon of corn flour during dough preparation, will add more crispiness to the dish.
- Also, we are adding the heated oil while dough preparation, this also serves the dish crispy.
- We can very well add the fennel seeds and mint leaves to the dish.
- Eat this Onion Pakoda with either tomato sauce or carrot chutney. This will make the dish healthier for kids.
- This is the attractive and healthy dish for the children to serve as a evening snack!
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Mrs. Lavanya Sampath
