Saturday, November 3, 2012

Thair Vadia

Ingredients
Urad dhall 2 cups
Green chillies 5
Ginger chopped
Hing a small pinch
Yogurt 2 cup
Coconut 2 t.spoon
Curry Leaves a few
Cilantro a small bunch washed and finely chopped
Salt 3/4 t.spoon
Cooking Oil for frying


Method
Soak urad dhall in water for half an hour. Wet grind urad dhall,
green chilles, and salt finely. Add chopped ginger, curry leaves
and hing to this.  Make small balls and deep fry in oil. 
Grind coconut with 1 green chilli and little salt.  Mix this with
yogurt. 
Soak the vadai's in the above yogurt mix and garnish with
chopped cilantro.

Bajji

Ingredients
Channa flour (Besan) 1 cup
Rice flour 1/2 cup
Chilli powder 1 t.spoon
Ghee (melted butter) 1 t.spoon
Hing a small pinch
Salt 3/4 t.spoon
Cooing Oil for frying
Vegetables - Cauliflower, Eggplant, Potato, Onions, Green bell
pepper washed and thinly sliced.


Method
Make a batter with channa flour, rice flour, chilli powder, hing,
ghee, and little salt. Coat the vegetables in this batter, and
deep fry in oil.

Potato Bhonda

Ingredients
Potatoes 6
Channa flour (besan) 1 cup
Rice flour 1/4 cup
Green chilles 6
Ginger a small piece grated
Curry leaves a few
Cilantro a small bunch washed and finely chopped
Lemon 1
Turmeric 1/4 t.spoon
Mustard 1/2 t.spoon
Urad dhall 1 t.spoon
Channa dhall 1/2 t.spoon
Cashew 1/4 cup chopped
Salt 1 t.spoon
Cooking Oil for frying


Method
Boil potatoes with turmeric, and salt. Peel skin and mash the
potatoes and keep them aside.  Fry in little oil, mustard, urad
dhall, channa dhall, cashew, green chilles, curry leaves and
ginger. Mix this well with the mashed potatoes, and add
fresh lemon juice. Roll small balls and keep them aside. Make a
batter with channa flour and little salt. Coat the balls in this
batter, and deep fry in oil.

Onion Pakodas

Ingredients
Channa flour (beasan) 2 cups
Rice flour 1 cup
Onions 2 chopped length wise
Ginger a small piece grated
Green chilles 4 chopped
Red chilli powder
Cashews 1/4 cup
Curry leaves a few
Ghee (melted butter) 2-3 t.spoons
Cooling Oil 4 t.spoons
Cilantro a small bunch washed and finely chopped
Salt 1 t.spoon
Cooking Oil for frying


Method
Mix channa flour, rice flour, chilli powder, cilantro and salt. 
Heat 4 t.spoons of oil, and 3 t.spoons of ghee in a pan and add
it to the above.
Now add chopped onions, green chilli

Kara Vadai

Ingredients
All purpose flour (Maida) 1 cup
Rice flour 1/4 cup
Onions 2 small finely chopped
Green chilles 4 finely chopped
Curry leaves a few
Mint (Optional) a small bunch washed and finely chopped
Salt 1/2 t.spoon
Cooking oil for frying


Method
Mix all the above ingredients and make small balls and deep fry
in oil.

Masala Vadai

Ingredients Channa dhall 1 cup Thuvar dhall 1/2 cup Green chilles 6 Red chilles 3 Ginger finely chopped Onions 2 small finely chopped Curry leaves a few Cilantro a small bunch washed and finely chopped Salt 3/4 t.spoon Cooking Oil for frying Method Soak the dhalls for 1 hour in water. Grind this mix coarsley with red chilles. Add chopped onions, ginger, cilantro, green chilles and curry leaves. Make small balls and deep fry in oil.

Spinach Vadai

Ingredients Moong dhall 2 cups Channa dhall 1 cup Rice 1/2 cup Spinach 1 bunch finely chopped Ginger a small piece grated Green Chilles 3-4 Hing a small pinch Salt 1 t.spoon Cooking Oil for frying Method Soak the dhalls for 1 hour in water. Grind ginger, green chilles, hing, salt and the soaked dhall coarsely. Add chopped spinach and makes small balls and deep fry in oil

Madhur Vadai

Ingredients All purpose flour 1 cup Wheat flour 1 cup Rice Flour 1 cup Besan 1 cup Chilli powder 2 spoon Chopped onions Green chilles 2 Hing a small pinch Salt 3/4 t.spoon Ginger a small piece grated Curry leaves a few Cilantro a small bunch washed and finely chopped Cooking Oil for frying Method Mix all the above ingredients with little water, make small balls and deep fry in oil.

Cashew Kunuku

Ingredients Rava (Cream of Wheat) 1 cup Rice flour 1 cup All purpose flour 1 cup Cashew 10-15 chopped Green chilles 5-6 Coconut 1 spoon Salt 3/4 t.spoon Cooking Oil for frying Method Grind cashew, chilles, coconut, salt finely with water, and mix this with the flours. Make small balls and deep fry in oil.

Kunuku

Ingredients
All purpose flour (Maida) 2 cups
Chilli powder 1/2 t.spoon
Hing a small pinch
Salt 1 t.spoon
Butter 2 t.spoon
Cooking oil for frying


Method
Mix maida, chilli powder, hing, salt, and butter with little 
water, and make a nice dough similar to Chappati dough.
Make small balls, and roll them similar to chappati/puri's and
cut them into small squares/diamonds.  Deep fry these small 
squares in oil.