Cuisine Style: South India | Cooking Time: 8 minutes | To Serve: 4 | Type : Snacks | Take with: Curd rice, green chutney, tea or coffee

Ingredients

• Onion – 2 [big, Sliced]
  
• Gram flour – ½ cup
  
• Rice flour – ¼ cup
  
• Asafetida - ¼ tsp
  
• Red chilli powder - ½ tsp
  
• Green chilli – 1 finely chopped
  
• Curry leaves – 2 springs [chopped]
  
• Coriander leaves – 2 springs [chopped]
  
• Ginger – 1 tbsp [mashed, chopped]
  
• Garlic – 3 cloves [mashed and chopped]
  
• Fennel seeds –1 tbsp
  
• Salt to taste
• Oil for deep frying
  
• Water as needed [Apr. 3 to 4 tbsp]

Ingredients for masala tea

• Fennel -1 tsp
• Ginger - 1 tbsp
• Cinnamon - 1/2 stick
• Cloves - 2
• cardamom - 2
• Tea powder - 5 small tsp
• Water - 1 cup
• Milk - 1 and 1/4 cup
• Sugar - 2 tbsp
• Boil 1 glass milk, add 5 small tsp tea powder, add spices, add milk, sugar, boil for 1 min
• Then strain without lumps

Preparation

• Peel off onion, thinely slice.
• Add ginger, garlic, green chilli, curry leaves, salt, fennel seeds, asafoetida, red chilli powder, turmeric powder mix well
• Add gram flour, rice flour, salt, asafetida, green chilli, curry leaves, coriander leaves and onion mix well.
• Sprinkle 4 tbsp of water and mix well. (Not like bajji consistency).
• Heat oil in a pan then sprinkle onion mixture & deep fry on medium flame till golden brown & crispy.
• Serve hot with curd rice, tea or coffee
  

Tips

• You can replace gram flour with all purpose flour[maida], atta [wheat flour] or corn flour.
• You can add any thinely sliced vegetables like potato, carrot, egg palnt, spring onion, capsicum, etc.
• You can replace fennel with cumin or carom seeds
• You can add garam masala
  

How to make Vegetable pakoda and masala tea Video

How to make Cripsy vegetable pakoda-Step by step photos

Crispy vegetable pakoda

Add carrot [Thinly sliced]

Add capsicum

Add onion

Add ginger, garlic, green chilli [You can avoid green chilli for kids]

Add coriander, curry leaves

Add asafoetida

Add salt

Add fennel

Add red chilli powder

Add turmeric powder

Mix well

Add gram flour

Add rice flour

Mix well

Add 4 tbsp water

mix well

Heat oil, sprinkle mixture

Fry on medium to high flame

Flip over fry

Fry both side till crisp and golden brown

Now its ready, remove it from oil

Drain on absorbent paper

Boil 1 glass milk, 5 small tsp tea powder, cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, fennel, pepper, ginger

Boil

Add 1 and 1/4 glass milk

Add sugar

Boil for a min

Strain without lumps

Crispy vegetable pakoda and masala tea ready

Crispy carrot, capsicum, onion pakoda