" BAARISH KE BAD,CHAI PAKODI KE SAATH OR MEETHE MAI CRANBERRY RASMALAI HAI SAATH"

CRAVINGS CAN MAKE US DO ANYTHING...TWO DAYS BACK AFTERNOON AT 1PM I WAS CHATTING WITH MY SIS ON SKYPE,..THROUGH THE WINDOW I SAW RAIN COMING DOWN,..TOLD MY SIS,,ITS RAINING SO I AM GOING TO MAKE PAKODI,,,SHE TEASED ME THERE AND THEN ..."ITS RAINING SO U WANT TO HAVE PAKODI" IN OTHER WAYS SHE MEANT THAT RAIN IS JUST AN EXCUSE I WANT TO EAT PAKODI SO I AM GOING TO MAKE,..SHE KNOWS I AM FOODIE AND CAN DO ANYTHING FOR EATING WHEN I WANT TO EAT ,..ANYWAYS,..SO I STARTED WITH PAKODI PREPARATION,,..BUT BEFORE THAT I HAD TO KEEP ADVAY BUSY...SO I GAVE HIM BUNCH OF GARLICS...AND A BASKET...AND IN A MINUTE TIME HE WAS BUSY KEEPING GARLICS IN THE BASKET AND TAKING THEM OUT,,,I DIDNT HAD MUCH TIME CAUSE I KNEW,,,ONCE HE GETS BORED HE WILL ASK FOR SOMETHING ELSE,,,

THOUGHT OF MAKING ONION PAKODI,,.BUT JUST PAKODI SOUNDS SO BORING,,AND WITH TOMATO KETCHUP I DONT LIKE,..CORIANDER CHUTNEY AND PAKODI ROCK TOGETHER,,.BUT CORIANDER WAS NOT THERE,,,,:-( ,..THEN THOUGHT OF PREPARING GARLIC CHUTNEY ,,,WHICH I HAD SEEN IN TARLA DALALS SITE FEW DAS BACK,,..ONCE CHUTNEY WAS DONE,,,KEPT WATER ON STOVE FOR TEA,,.CAUSE PAKODI WONT TASTE LIKE PAKODI UNLESS HOT TEA IS THERE ,GOD I AM SO DEMANDING BUT THEN THATS HOW I AM SPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO FOOD :-)STARTED WITH BATTER PREPARATION..

INGREDIENTS USED FOR ONION PAKODI

ONION TWO CHOPPED IN LONG SLICES

GREEN CHILLI TWO CHOPPED

GRAMFLOUR TWO TABLESPOON

GINGER GARLIC PASTE TWO TSP

SALT TO TASTE

CAROM SEEDS ONE TSP

RED CHILLI POWDER HALF TSP

PINCH OF GARAM MASALA

PROCEDURE

MIX EVERYTHING TOGETHER,..ADD DESIRED QUANTITY OF WATER

HEAT OIL IN WOK,..I USED NON STICK KADAI,,SO LESS OIL IS USED

WITH HELP OF SPOON SLIDE THE MIXTURE IN OIL WHEN THE OIL IS HOT ENOUGH

LOWER THE FLAME

KEEP TURNING TILL PAKODAS TURN BROWN AND CRISPY FROM BOTH SIDES

KEEP ON KITCHEN TOWEL TO DRAIN OIL

BY THE TIME ONION PAKODIS WERE READY,..TEA WAS READY TOO,..SO TREATED MYSELF TO THE FEAST,..WHAT A JOY I GOT,,,DON THINK ALL THIS JUST FOR ME...PREPARED FOR HUBBY WHEN HE WAS BACK FROM HOSPITAL,.,.BUT YA THIS IS TRUE,,,IT ALL STARTED WITH CRAVING FOR PAKODIS,,,AFTER THE RAIN,...:-)

SINCE THE DAY I HAD SEEN VANIS POST OF RASMALAI,.I WANTED TO GIVE IT A TRY...AND THE SAME DAY EVENING I TRIED ,..THANKS VANI FOR THE RECIPE,..I STUFFED CRANBERRIES WHILE MAKING COTTAGE CHEESE BALLS SO THE RASMALAI WAS CRANBERRY STUFFED RASMALAI,,,THIS WAS THE CHANGE WHICH I DID TO HER RECIPE,..YA ANOTHER EXPERIMENT,,OF MINE,,THANKFULLY IT WAS SUCCESSFUL...:-)

DO CHECK OUT CRANBERRY SANDESH TOO

NEHA OF EASY AND TASTY RECIPE IS HOSTING SWC MAHARASHTRA DETAILS CAN BE FIND HERE,,AS ONION PAKODA IS KNOWN AS KANDA BHAJI IN MAHARASHTRA I AM SENDING KANDA BHAJI TO SWC MAHARASHTRA EVENT,.

COMING TO AWARDS UMA HAS PASSED ME FRIENDHSIP AWARD THANKS A LOTZ UMA FOR THE FRIENDSHIP AWARD,.

WHAT I PREPARED FOR DINNER WILL BE COMING IN NEXT POST....:-)

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