Kurkri Bhindi Evening Snacks

Ingredients

• 1/2 Kg fresh okra/Bhindi, split

• 6 tbsp gram flour
• 1/2 cup cornstarch
• 2 cups cold water
• 1 tsp cayenne pepper/Black Pepper
• 1 onion cutted in long length
• 1 tsp sugar
• 1 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp ajwain
• 1/2 tsp red chilli powder
• 2 chillies finely chopped
• Oil for deep frying
• 1/2 tsp of chat masala to sprinkle

Method:

1. Heat oil

2. Mix gram flour and corn starch together.

3. Gradually add cold water  whisking continuously until you get a pancake batter-like consistency.

4. Mix spices and additional flour together and coat split okra, onioin in mix.

5. Add spiced okra to tempura batter and slowly place okra into hot oil. Let fry for 2-3 minutes then remove and drained.

6. Sprinkle Chat masala and serve it with hot tea in evening snacks.

Coriander Dhokli, Coriander Wadi or Kothambir Wadi

Ingredient

1. Gram flour- 1 cup
2. Wheat flour- ½ cup
3. Selamoni or Rava- ½ cup
4. Chopped coriander leaves- 1 cup
5. Turmeric powder- 1 tsp
6. Oil- 2 tsp
7. Cumin seeds- 1 tsp
8. Ginger & garlic paste- 1 tbsp
9. Tamarind chutney- 5 tsp
10. All purpose flour- 2 tsp
11. Roasted sesame seeds- ½ cup
12. Fruit salt or Eno- ½ tsp
13. Juice of ½ lime
14. Salt to taste
15. Oil for frying

Method:

1. In a bowl mix Selomani, wheat flour, Gram flour, turmeric powder, roasted sesame seeds, lime juice, salt & add water enough that there is no lumps and and its in a semi liquid form.
2. Now in a fry pan add 1 tsp of oil, as the oil warms up add cumin seeds and as the seeds starts to crackle add ginger-garlic paste and mix well and let it cool down then add it to the bowl mixture prepared
3. Grease a wide vessel which can be steamed
4. Add fruit salt to the mixture and shift mixture to greased vessel
   
5. Now steam this mixture for around 15 minutes, and check with a knife whether poking the batter that it comes out clearly then the batter is steamed enough and can be put aside for cooling
   
6. After cooling, cut the steamed dough in equal pieces and fry them on medium flame.
   
7. As the colour changes to golden red, remove them and serve yummy kothambir wadi with green chutney

Mumbain Vada Pav

Yummy Tasty Vada Pav

Ingredients:

For Vada

1. 3 cups of boiled and mashed potatoes
2. 3 green chilled roughly chopped
3. 2 inch og peeled and roughly chopped ginger
4. 1 1/2 tspns of mustards seeds (rai/sarson)
5. 1/2 tspns of asafoetida (hing)
6. 10-12 curry leaves
7. 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
8. 1/2 lemon
9. 3 tsp chopped coriander leaves
10. Salt as per taste 

For Outer Covering:

1. 3/4 cup of Gram flour (Besan)
2. 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
3. 4-5 pinch of salt
4. a pinch of baking soda

Other Ingredients:

1. Pavs or plain buns
2. Dry Garlic Chutney
3. Oil for deep frying

Method:

1. Pound the green chillies, ginger and garlic using a mortar and pestle.
2. Heat the oil and add the mustard seeds. When they crackle, add the asafoetida and curry leaves and sauté for a few seconds.
3. Add the pounded mixture and sauté again for a few seconds.
4. Add the potatoes, turmeric powder, lemon, coriander leaves and salt and mix well.
5. Remove from the fire and cool
6. Divide it in 8-10 equal portions. Shape into rounds
7. In a bowl combine all ingredients of outer covering with 1/3 cup of water
8. Dip each vada in this gram flour mixture
9. Deep fry in hot oil, till golden brown. Drain Oil and keep aside.

Tips:

1. Slice each pav into haf, spread Dry garlic chutney, place a vada and serve immediately.

Kanda Bhajiya

Pyaaz Pakode

Ingredients:

1. 4 big size onion chopped in long altitutde
2. 6 spoon gram flour
3. ¾ table spoon of salt
4. 5-6 chillies chopped
5. ½ table spoon garam masala
6. ½ table spoon ajwain
7. 1/3 tablespoon of red Mirch powder
8. ½ table spoon of coriander powder
9. Oil for Frying

Method:

1. In a bowl add chopped onion salt, and gram flour and keep it aside for 45 minutes
2. After 45 minutes add all the ingredients and mix the dough of kanda bhajiya thoroughly, it will look like as the image shown above.
3. Heat Oil at Medium flame till the dough poured in oil doesn’t come up instant
4. Fry all the bhajiya till it becomes Dark golden
5. Serve this tasty bhajiya with Green chutney, Tomato Sauce.