Garma Garam Maa ke haath ke ‘Pyaaz ke Pakode’

• 2 Onions, finely sliced
• ½ cup Gram flour/Besan
• 1 Green Chili, finely sliced
• ¾ tbsp. Red Chili powder
• 4-5 fresh Curry leaves roughly chopped
• Salt
• Oil

PREPARATION:

• In a bowl mix finely sliced onions with green chili, red chili powder, salt and curry leaves. Mix everything with hands by squeezing the sliced onions a little with fingers. Leave the mixture for 5-10 minutes.
• In the meantime, heat enough oil for deep frying pakodas in a heavy bottom cooking vessel or kadai.

• Now add gram flour spoon by spoon until onion mixture is completely coated with besan. (Don’t add water). The moisture in the onion is enough to bind flour. Mix well.
• Check whether the oil is hot enough to fry pakoda’s by dropping a small ball of pakoda mixture into the oil, if the ball come on top quickly then you can start frying pakoda’s.  Now take a small portion of mixture with your fingers and drop in the hot oil by gently using your thump to release the paokoda batter from fingers.

• Alternatively you can use a small spoon and drop the mixture slowly into the hot oil. Fry till golden by turning the pakoda’s carefully and gently using a slotted spatula.
• Drain on to a kitchen tissue or cloth to remove excess oil. Serve hot with tomato sauce or your choice of chutney along with tea or coffee.
• Add love to make these pakode taste ‘Yummy’.