Sunday, June 7, 2020

onion vada

Onion Vada is very easy to prepare. Preparation time is absolutely less and ingredients acquired is very few.  Best evening snacks that favors everyone.

INGREDIENTS
 

Onion                      3 
Green chilies                    3  
Gram flour                       4 tsp  
Rice flour                          1 tsp
Ginger crushed               1 tsp
Curry leaves               1 spring
Chilly powder               1/2 tsp
Asafoetida powder  1/4 tsp
Salt as required


Chop onions into thin slices in length wise.  Chop the green chillie, curry leaves and ginger. Crush the ginger or you can add ginger paste.

 Add Chilly powder, Asafoetida   powder and salt. Mix it well and keep it aside for ten minutes.  Let the onion absorb the masala finely.

Take a medium bowl, add the   measured rice flour and gram
 flour, one small spoon of sugar and   mix it well.  Sugar here is meant for making the vada crispy. Its optional. 
Check the onion mix. Now the salt and all other masala's would have absorbed by the onion. Add this mix into the flour and make a thick batter.  No need of adding water as the onion mix will be in liquid state.  If water is required, sprinkle to make batter. Don't pour. If water exceeds, there is no solution. So be careful.

Take a deep pan, pour enough oil and heat it.  When the oil is hot reduce the flame and pour spoonfuls of batter into the oil. You can even pour by hand making a circular batter. Fry the vadas by turning both sides till it turn golden brown



Yummy and crispy vada is very good combination to have with tea.
      

crispy evening snacks


       

     I tried for a chips snack with the.  
     available food products at home.  
     It resulted awesome. These delicious 
     crispy snacks makes an awesome 
     bakery food. These snack will be 
     loved by kids and grown ups 
     alike. Simple and easy wheat 
     flour snack can be served with tea 
      or coffee in evening time. Its 
     an perfect snack to serve for kids 
     and grown ups returns home 
     tired and hungry. Wheat is a healthy 
     food that contains vitamins.
     Its supports healthy digestion. 
      The other ingredients too is very 
      good for health. Taking carom seed
     in our food improves cholesterol 
     levels, powerful antifungal and 
     antibacterial properties. And the 
     present of garlic reduces gas 
     problems and even reduces 
     blood pressure.

     The ingredients used is as follows: -

     Wheat flour    :  2 glasses (240ml)

     Semolina        :   4 tsp         

     Garlic             :   9 pieces

     Dry chillies     :   8 Nos

    
 Carom seed     :   1 tsp



    Few curry leaves, salt and oil as 

    required.


   PREPARATION

   Take a mixie jar, add the garlic  

   and dry chillies. Pour very little water 
   and grind it. No need to grind too 
   much. And crush the carom seed 
   with a soft press. Chop the curry 
   leaves.


   Take a wide pan, add wheat flour,    

   semolina, mix it. Add the carom 
  seed, grinded mix, curry leaves 
  salt as required and mix it. Put 
  little salt in the beginning. You can
  adjust it later.

  Add one tsp of sunflower oil. Mix  

  well and knead a soft dough as we 
  make to prepare chapati.  Start by 
  adding very little and add as 
  needed.  If the dough feels too tight. 
  Wet your hand with little water and 
   knead the dough. It should be smooth 
   and when you press the dough with 
    our fingers, you should be able to feel 
    the impression. Keep the dough aside 
    for 15-20 minutes.

   Roll out balls from the prepared 

   dough. Place them on the chapati 
   flattener or flat surface and 
   flatten them with the help of a rolling 
    pin. Keep using wheat flour in order to 
   prevent the rolls from sticking to 
   the surface. But be sure to use very 
    little. Just sprinkling is enough. 
    Because applying more flour makes 
    the snacks burnt quickly while frying. 
    So be careful to knead the dough with 
   required water. Never exceed. 
   Flatten the balls, take a sharp 
   edge steel plate or any other steel pan. 
  Press it on the flattened dough and 
  open it to get a round circle. Take a 
  knife and scratch out a triangle on 
  the flattened dough and make 
  scratches insides the triangles too.

   Place a kadai on flame. Add 

   enough sunflower oil. Deep fry the 
   prepared doughs. Add 3-4 four dough 
   at once or as possible according to the 
   wideness of the kadai.

   
Its crispy, spicy and yummy. Make 

   it, you will really enjoy it when 
   taken with hot tea or coffee.


   
 Watch the whole preparation on

     my  youtube channel:-

 

       https://youtu.be/4EOlzLQ_6II 
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       like.  Thanks.

      

bread pakoda

Bread pakoda is a fried snacks and popular snacks in the streets of Mumbai, India. Its made from bread slices with the includance of gram flour, atta or maida powder and other spicy ingredients that creates a delicious snacks for the working people in the crowded city of Mumbai. The snacks are made in small tea shops in the evening hours. That bring a great relief to cover up their hungriness for working guys till they reach home.  Am presenting my idea of preparation done by me.

Ingredients as follows:-

6 nos of bread slices
2 nos of potatoes (medium sized)
3 nos of green chillies
2-3 pcs of garlics
Small piece of ginger
1/4 tsp, 2 pinch of turmeric powder
1 tsp of chilly powder
1/4 tsp of garam masala powder
3-4 drops of lemon or half part of ripe tomato
1 medium glass of gram flour
1/4 glass of atta or maida powder
One spring of curry leaves
1 onion medium sized
Oil/coconut as required
2 pinch of asafoetida powder 
 Salt as required

PREPARATION 

Roast the bread slices and keep it aside.  Take a pressure cooker add potatoes, little water and cook it with three time whistle in medium flame. 

Chop the onion, green chilly, garlic, ginger and curry leaves. Finely chopped into very small pieces, just as we make for seasoning of curry.

Place a kadai on flame, pour enough oil. Let it be heated, add the onion mix and saute it well. Until it turns to transparent. Add 2 pinch of turmeric powder, 1/2 tsp of chilly powder, 1/4 tsp of gharam masala powder and salt.  First step add very litte you can adjust it further. Saute well until the raw smell goes away. Pour very little water and stir. Add 3-4 drops of lemon into it. You can add 1/2 ripe tomato instead of lemon. This step is optional. If you dislike sourness can skip it. Finally add the mashed potatoes  (You have to mash the potatoes when its cooked) saute and mix everything well.  Remove it from the flame and keep for cooling. Meanwhile we have to make batter.
Take a wide spread pan and add the measured gram flour and atta powder into it. Mix it. Add 1/4 tsp of turmeric powder, 1/2 tsp of chilly powder, asafoetida powder,  salt and mix it well.  Add water little by little. Don't pour too much at once. Make a medium batter.Not too thick nor thin. The bread mix should be able to absorb the batter.  


Take the bread slices, apply the potato mixture in one side of the bread. Cover the slice with the other slice and cut the bread slices into triangular sizes. 







Dip the filled slices into the batter to coat the breads.  

Take a deep pan pour enough oil. When the oil is heated reduce the flame and fry the pokuvada by turning both sides.