KEERA VADA

Ingredients

Urad dal 1 cup

Chopped onion 1/4 cup

Green chilli 2

Coriander leaves 1/2 bunch

Chopped curry leaves 1/4 cup

Drumstick leaves 1/4 cup

Salt to taste

Oil to fry

Preparation

1. Soak urad dal for about 3 hours.

2. Grind it into a thick batter by adding small amount of water.

3. To this batter, add chopped onion, chopped green chilli, chopped coriander leaves, curry leaves, drumstick leaves and salt. Mix well.

4. Heat oil in a pan, add small amount of this batter and fry.

5. Serve it with chutney.

ONION PAKODA

Ingredients

Besan flour 2 cups

Onion 5

Chilli powder 1 tsp

Green chillies 2 or 3

Rice flour 1/2 cup

Salt to taste

Oil to fry

Preparation

Cut onion into thin slice. To this add besan, rice flour, chilli powder, green chillies and salt. Mix it well by adding little water and make it into a batter. Take a small ball of the above mixture and deep fry till it turn golden brown.

ALOO BONDA

Ingredients

Gram flour 1 cup

Aloo (potatoes) 2 (boiled & mashed)

Green chillies 1 or 2

Corriander leaves 2 tsp

Red chilli powder 1 or 2 tsp

Turmeric powder 1/2 tsp

Salt to taste

Oil to fry

Preparation

1. In a vessel add gram flour, salt, chilli powder,turmeric powder and made it into a batter(neither too thick nor too lose) by adding water little by little.

2. Take a bowl add mashed potatoes, chopped green chillies, coriander and chilli powder. Mix well and make aloo mixture into small balls.

3. Dip each ball in batter and fry them till golden brown.

4. Serve it with chutney.

RAW BANANA BHAJI (BAJJI)

Ingredients

Besan flour 1 cup

Rice flour 2 tsp

Plaintain (raw banana) 1

Chilli powder 2 tsp

Salt 1 or 2 tsp

Oil to fry

Preparation

1. Take besan(gram flour) in a vessel add chilli powder, salt into it and make a batter similar to dosa batter.

2. Cut plaintain into slices, then dip that plaintain into gram flour mixture and deep fry in oil till it turns to golden colour

3.We can also follow this method for making onion bajji, paprika bajji and brinjal (egg plant) bajji.

RASA VADA

Ingredients


Masala vada 5

Tamarind lemon sized

Mustard seeds 1 tsp

Cumin powder 1 tsp

Rasam powder 1 tsp

Turmeric powder 1/2 tsp

Pepper powder 1 tsp

Crushed garlic 2

Curry leaves 5 leaves

Hing a pinch

Salt to taste

Oil 2 tsp

Preparation

1. Soak Tamarind in water and extract tamarind juice.

2. To that juice add cumin powder, rasam powder, pepper powder, turmeric powder,hing, crushed garlic and salt. Mix it well.

3. Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, curry leaves after that add tamarind juice mixture.

4.Turn off the heat and to this hot rasam add masala vada. After 1 hour it is ready to eat.

(Note: For making Rasa vada, grind channadal finely and make the masala vada in ball shape.)

MASALA VADA

Ingredient

Channadal 200 gms
Red chillies 2 to 3 number
Onion 1
Green chillies 2
Cinnomon sticks 2 piece
Curry leaves 10 leaves
Cumin seeds 1 tsp

Hing 1 tsp
Salt to taste
Oil to fry

Preparation

Soak channadal along with red chillies for about 2 hours. Blend them coarsly along with cinnomon and cumin.To this add finely chopped onion,green chillies,curry leaves,salt and hing.

Take a small ball size of this mixture and flat it. Fry it deeply in a heat oil till it turns golden brown colour.

DAHI VADA

Ingredients

Medu vada 10

Yogurt (dahi) 500 ml

Cumin seeds 2 tsp

Green chillies 1

Red chillies 2

Curry leaves 10 leaves

Mustard seeds 1 tsp

Urad dal 2 tsp

Preparation

Soak medu vada in salt water for 2 to 3 minutes ( so that dahi vada is soft). Take the vadas out of water and squeeze water and keep aside. Blend curry leaves, corriander leaves, cumin seeds, green chillies. Add this blended mixture into yogurt. Add salt to it. Take a pan add oil, cumin seeds, urad dal, curry leaves. Add this tempering to yogurt. Serve the Dahi vadas chilled.

MEDU VADA

Ingredients

Urad dal 200 gms
Sooji 2 to 3 tsp
Onion 1
Green chillies 2
Curry leaves half cup
Hing 1 tsp
Salt to taste
Oil to fry

Preparation

Soak the urad for about 2 to 3 hours. Grind it into a course paste. Take a vessel and add grinded urad dal, sooji, chopped onion, green chillies, curry leaves, hing and salt. Mix it well. Take a frying pan add oil and heat it. Make grinded urad dal mixture into a donut shape and deep fry in oil till it turns golden brown.