Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Masala vada

Ingredients:

chana dal
Chana dal or senagapappu or split yellow bengal gram - 150gms


salt - as per taste
oil - for deep frying









Ingredients

red chillis - 7 to 8
cinnamon or dalchina chekka - small piece
ginger garlic paste - 1 table spoon
onion - 1 big - chopped
roasted chana dal or putnala pappu - 1 handful
coriander - 1/2 bunch - chopped


Procedure:

Step - 1
Soak chana dal for 3 hrs in water and  then drain water and keep it aside.








Step - 2
Now grind soaked chanadal with red chilis and cinnamon with less water like vada batter i.e. thick paste.
Then add roasted chanadal, chopped onions, chopped coriander, ginger garlic paste and salt  to it, and mix well.




Step - 3
Now Heat oil in a pan for deep frying.
once the oil got heat,
take a polythene cover, apply little oil on it.
then take a small amount of batter and press it like vada with hand



Step - 4

then slowly drop in the oil.
repeat the same for remaining vadas until the pan is full.






Step - 5
fry them till golden brown color and take them onto a paper towel.







Step - 6

Serve hot with tomato sauce or mint chutney.


cabbage pakodi fry


Ingredients:

Ingredients
Cabbage - 200gms
besan or gram flour - 2 table spoons
corn flour - 2 table spoons
rice flour - 1 table spoon
ginger garlic paste - 1 spoon
red chilli powder - 1 table spoon
salt - for taste
oil - for deep frying

For tadka or talimpu:
Talimpu
chana dal - 1 tea spoon
urad dal - 1 tea spoon
musterd seeds - 1/2 table spoon
jeera - 1/2 table spoon
red chillis - 2
peanuts - one handful
hing or asfotodia - pinch
turmeric - pinch
curry leaves - few

Procedure:

Step - 1
cut cabbage into small pieces.







Step - 2
Then add besan, corn flour, rice flour, red chilli powder, salt, ginger garlic paste to cabbage and mix well.
keep it aside for 20 minutes to get marinate.
Don't add water as by adding salt the vegetable will leave some water.
after 20 min if  the mixture is very dry then sprinkle very little water.



Step - 3
Now heat the oil and drop this mixture into oil like pakoda.







Step - 4
once the pakoda got golden brown color, remove it and put it in a plate on paper towel.







step - 5
Now take a pan put 2 spoons oil, let it get heat, then add chana dal, urad dal, musterd seeds, jeera, peanuts, tuemeric, hing to it.
once the talimpu got fried add curry leaves and fried pakoda to it and mix well.




Step - 6
now remove the mixture from pan and tak it into a serving bowl and serve with sambar or rasam or pappu charu (mild sambar).