ONION PAKODA- TEA KADAI/SHOP STYLE
We all tasted at least once in our life-time the recipe called Onion pakoda especially from the local bakery cum tea shop. They make it on every evening but it taste amazing during on rainy days.
Though our mom surprising us on every day with some crispy snacks, still we prefer the road side snacks often. Here is the recipe
Ingredient:
Kadala Mavu/ Chick pea Flour – ½ cup
Rice flour – ¼ cup
Red chilli powder – ½ tsp
Cumin powder – 1 tsp
Asafetida – 1 tsp
Baking soda – ½ tsp
Salt – as req
Water – as req
Thinly julienne sliced onions – 1 cup
Coriander leaves-finely chopped – ¼ cup
Curry leaves/ karuvepillai – 2 tblsp
Cooking oil – as req (for deep frying)
Procedure
Step 1:
In a wide mixing bowl add all the ingredients except oil, water. Incorporate everything well
Step 2:
Since we are adding onions, the mixture should be lightly wet. Sprinkle some more water (be very careful- very little) and mix it well. The texture should be lightly crumble like here and there. Exactly should be a very little sticky but crumbled.
Step 3:
Meanwhile heat the oil to deep fry. Once the oil get hot sprinkle the pakoda mixture over the hot oil (one batch at a time) and allow it to cook for few mins and gently turn the other side for few more minutes.
Once the sizzle sounds off you can take off the pakodas from the oil and place over the kitchen towel or tissues to take off the excess oil (since we are adding a very little amount of baking soda that helps to observe the oil)
Serve hot and njoy with a cup of fliter-coffee
