ONION,CHILLI,POTATO BAJJI PAKODA/ VEG FRITTERS
Author: Suganya Hariharan
Recipe type: Appetizer
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 15 pieces
Ingredients
- Gram flour - 2 cups
- Red chilli powder - 1 tbsp
- Rice flour - 1 cup
- cumin seeds - ½ tsp
- ajwain seeds/Carom seeds - 2 tsp
- baking powder/baking soda- ¼ tsp
- Asafoetida - ¼ tsp
- Salt & water - as needed
- Hot oil - 1 tbsp (optional)- to make it crispy
- Oil - to deep fry.
- Vegetables - Onion- 1, Potato -1, Mirchi big chilli banana - 2,
- Bread - 1
Instructions
- Slice the onion and keep aside. Remove potato skin, and slice the potato thinly and dip in water to make it not oxidise. Keep it aside. Chop the ends of the bread, cut into your desired shape and keep them aside. Take big banana pepper, wash them, pat dry with kitchen towels, slit them each lengthwise but without completely split them into two. carefully scrap away the seeds with knife and keep the chilli big banana aside.
- In a mixing bowl, mix together gram flour, rice flour, red chilli powder, sodium bi carbonate, salt, asafoetida and hot oil (optional), ajwain. Add water little by little and mix well to a batter not thick or too thin.
- Mean while, heat enough oil in medium to high heat to fry the bajjis in a kadai/pan. Dip one by one the veggies like onion, chillies and drop carefully into hot oil. Cook until golden brown and crisp on each side for around 2 mins.
Notes
1. For chillies, the seeds should be totally removed.
2. Add water slowly, so you start from thick consistency to thin consistency. If you add more water, its hard to get back to the consistency you want. DIlute it slowly. Making thicker batter also removes the lumps.
3. Small bubbles are formed because of the soda to make it light.
4. Do not fry them when it is really hot. When you fry them at right temperature, it will be not be oily when you remove them from pan.
5. Do not fry when the oil is not hot, it will make your food greasy and the batter wont stick to the vegetables well.
6. Do not crowd the pan with vegetables, it will make the oil cold and the whole process is waste.
2. Add water slowly, so you start from thick consistency to thin consistency. If you add more water, its hard to get back to the consistency you want. DIlute it slowly. Making thicker batter also removes the lumps.
3. Small bubbles are formed because of the soda to make it light.
4. Do not fry them when it is really hot. When you fry them at right temperature, it will be not be oily when you remove them from pan.
5. Do not fry when the oil is not hot, it will make your food greasy and the batter wont stick to the vegetables well.
6. Do not crowd the pan with vegetables, it will make the oil cold and the whole process is waste.
Recipe by Relish The Bite at https://www.relishthebite.com/onionchillipotato-bajji-pakoda-veg-fritters/