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(129)Locha Puri.

Masala Puri

Ingredients

  • 3 cups wheat flour.
  • 1 cup water.
  • 3 tbsp. Sesame seeds oil.
  • ½ tbsp. Salt.
  • 1 tbsp. White Sesame seeds.
  • ½ tsp. Cumin seeds.
  • ¼ tsp. Carom seeds.
  • 1 tsp. Chili powder.
  • ½ tsp. Coriander- Cumin powder.
  • ¼ tsp. Turmeric powder.
  • ⅛ tsp Asafoetida powder.

Method

  1. Mix all dry ingredients thoroughly.
  2. Add water and make a dough.
  3. Keep aside for 10 minutes .
  4. After 10 minutes with 1 tsp. of oil knead dough for 2 minutes continuous will make dough more soft.
  5. Take 2 cms. diameter ball size dough and roll into round flat puri.
  6. Deep fry each puri and serve hot with chilled Shrikhand, Basundi, Dudhpak, Kheer, Aamras and any vegetable but likely with aloo bhaji.
Spices for masala puri
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(128) Batata Vada

Ingredients

  • 1Kg Potatoes.
  • 1 cup finely chopped coriander leaves.
  • 4 Green chili finely chopped or paste.
  • 2 inch size Ginger paste.
  • 2 tbsp. Lemon juice.
  • Oil for frying.
  • 1 cup besan for making batter.
  • Salt.
  • 1 tsp. red chili powder for batter.
  • ¼ tsp. Asafoetida powder for batter.

Method

  1. Wash and pressure cook Potatoes upto 3 whistles.
  2. When pressure gets released open the lid .
  3. Peel each potato and mash immediately when it is hot otherwise pulp will remain granular.
  4. Make a fine paste of green chilies and ginger. Add this paste to potato pulp.
  5. Add coriander leaves and lemon juice and mix lightly and make table tennis size balls.
  6. For making batter take gram flour ( besan) in one sauce pan .
  7. Add salt, red chili powder, asafoetida and oil .
  8. Mix all ingredients and make thick flowing consistency batter.
  9. Pick one ball of batata vada , dip in batter and fry in hot oil.
  10. Fry till golden brown and serve hot vada with green chutney, red sweet chutney , garlic chutney and bread
Batata vada
Vada batter.
Consistency of vada batter
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(125) Moongdal Vada

Ingredients

  • 2 cups Green Moongdal.
  • 1 tsp. Green chili paste.
  • 1tsp Ginger paste.
  • ½ tsp. Turmeric powder.
  • ½ tsp. Red Chili powder.
  • ½ tsp. coarse ground whole coriander seeds.
  • 1 tsp. Salt.

Method

  1. Wash and soak moongdal for 12 hours.
  2. After 12 hours drain all the water with the help of strainer. No need to discard skins of Moongdal.
  3. Because of the skin vada will remains soft from inside otherwise have to add oil for softness.
  4. Grind Moongdal into coarse batter
  5. Try to avoid adding water during grinding .
  6. If batter is watery vada will become shapeless and soft from outside.
  7. If you soak yellow moongdal then add 1 tbsp. hot oil in batter before frying.
  8. Mix all ingredients thoroughly and vigorously for getting fluffy batter .
  9. Starts frying vada (see video)
  10. Serve hot vada with Rasam and coconut chutney.
Moongdal Vada
Making of Moongdal Vada
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(124) Kanda na Bhajiya

Ingredients

  • 4 medium size Onions.
  • ¼ cup rice flour.
  • 1- 2 cups besan depends on the quality of onion.If onion is fresh and juicy then require more besan compare to old and desiccated onion.
  • 1 tsp. Salt.
  • 1 tsp. Red chili powder.
  • 1 tsp. Coriander-Cumin powder.
  • ¼ tsp. Asafoetida powder.
  • 2 tbsp. Finely chopped coriander leaves.
  • 2 Green chilies finely chopped (optional)
  • ½ tsp. whole coriander seeds.
  • Groundnut oil for frying.

Method

  1. Cut onions into long slices.
  2. Marinate cut onion with salt . Knead onion for 1 minute . Keep aside for 10 minutes. Water release from onion.
  3. Coarse ground coriander seeds with the help of your two palms.
  4. Add remaining ingredients and mix thoroughly with onions.
  5. Add besan as well as rice flour and mix lightly in onions with the help of your fingers.
  6. Heat oil in kadhai for frying.
  7. Fry kanda bhaji in oil.
  8. Serve kanda bhaji with 2 slices of bread or with pav and Green Chutney,Red Chutney, Garlic Chutney.
Kanda mixed with besan and masala
Making of kanda bhaji.
Kanda bhaji.
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(111) Garlic chutney

Ingredients

  • 1 cup Garlic pods.
  • 1 cup Desiccated coconut powder
  • ½ cup Sesame seeds
  • 2 tsp. Salt.
  • 2 tsp. Red chili powder.

Method

  1. Peel garlic pods.
  2. Dry roast Sesame seeds.Keep aside to cool down.
  3. when completely cool , grind sesame seeds into coarse powder. keep aside.
  4. Grind garlic pods, salt and red chili powder into fine paste.
  5. In big plate , mix garlic paste, sesame seeds coarse powder and coconut powder with hand.
  6. Garlic dry chutney is ready.
  7. Enjoy with your food .
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(109) Kali ni bhaji na pakoda

Ingredients

  • 2 cup roughly chopped or  1bunch Kali ni bhaji (Water spinach or Nali bhaji).
  • ½ cup chopped onion.
  • ½ cup chopped tomato .
  • ½ cup chopped capsicum.
  • 1 tsp. Salt
  • 1 tsp. Sugar.
  • 1 tbsp. Curd.
  • ⅓ tsp. Asafoetida powder.
  • ½ tsp. whole coriander seeds.
  • ½ tsp. Turmeric powder.
  • 1 tsp. Red chili powder.
  • 1 tsp. Coriander Cumin powder
  • 1 finely chopped Green chili( optional)
  • pinch of soda bicarbonate.
  • 1 cup mixed flour [¼cup Rice(for crispiness) ,¼ cup Jowar (for dryness ) and ½ cup Channa (for taste)].
  • ½ cup water.
  • Ground nut oil for frying.

Method

  1. Discard all white part of kalini bhaji  which is bitter in taste.
  2. Wash thoroughly and chopped bhaji onion and tomato.
  3. In one sauce pan mix all three vegetables  and add salt, sugar and pinch of soda for marination.
  4. Keep aside for 5 minutes.
  5. After 5 minutes mix flour, curd , capsicum and all spices in it. Add water and make thick batter for pakoda.
  6. Heat oil for frying pakoda.
  7. See video for how to make pakoda. Each lot of pakoda takes 5 minutes on medium flame.
  8. Enjoy pakoda with Garlic chutney, Green chutney, sweet chutney or as you desire.
Safed Musli or kali ni bhaji.
Discard white portion of the bhaji.
Chopped bhaji.
Marinated bhaji, onion and tomato
Add all dry spices.
Add capsicum and curd.
Making of Kali ni bhaji na pakoda.
Kali ni bhaji na pakoda with dry Garlic chutney.

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(101) Medu Vada

Ingredients

  • 1 cup Udad dal
  • 1 tsp. Salt.
  • ¼ tsp Asafoetida.
  • Ground nut oil for frying

Method

  1. Soak Udad dal for 12 to 14 hrs.
  2. After 14 hours wash dal  thoroughly and drain water with strainer.
  3. Grind Udad dal into fine paste.
  4. Add salt and Asafoetida in batter.
  5. Stir vigorously with your hand such that it traps air  in batter.
  6. Check batter with putting small drop of batter in cup of water. If that drop floats then your batter is ready for making vada.
  7. If not floating then again stir for some more time .
  8. Once batter is ready heat oil in  kadhai for deep frying.
  9. Simultaneously take water in one cup .
  10. Take small portion of the batter on back side of the spoon,dip your finger in cup of plain  water and then make hole in that batter. Flip the spoon in hot oil so that batter in the form of Vada falls in oil without changing shape ( see the video).
  11. Fry till golden brown.
  12. Make all Medu vadas in this style .
  13. Enjoy Medu vada with sambhar and chutney.