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 TABLESPOONGINGER 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...:-)
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....:-)
CEE U GUYS TOMORROW
