Onion Pakoda

            
                                                     Onion Pakoda

      During rainy evenings, munching hot crispy, crunchy onion pakoda, will be a wish for anyone. I could not resist the desire to eat pakoda. The thought of onion pakodas tickled my taste buds, so I decided to make and share the recipe.
      Onion pakoda went well with my evening coffee. Coming to this recipe.

Cuisine; South Indian
Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Cooking Time: 20 minutes
Resting Time: 10 minutes

Ingredients:
Big onion: 1 no
Green Chilli: 2 nos 
Ginger: 1/2 tea spoon finely chopped
Besan Flour: 1& 1/2 table spoons
Rice Flour: 2 &1/2 table spoons 
Asofotedia: 1/2 tea spoon
Saunf: 1/2 tea spoon (Optional) 
Salt as needed
Hot Oil: 2 tea spoon ( for mixing dough)
Oil for frying
Curry Leaves: A few no
Water as needed

Method:
1. Finely slice the onions and  green chilies.
2. Take a wide bowl, add rice and besan flour mix well, add asofotedia, salt and mix thoroughly.
3. Now add the finely sliced onions, green chillies and ginger, saunf.
4. Add hot oil and knead well, the water in the onions will be enough to make it into dough. If it is dry, sprinkle little water. It should be a tight dough. Leave it for 10 minutes.
5. Heat oil in a kadai over medium flame.
6. When the oil is hot, deep fry the pakodas till golden brown and crispy.
7. Drain the excess oil and take it out, place it on a tissue, to remove oil  if any.
8. Serve and enjoy pakodas.

Burger

                                                         Burger

       I heard about burger long back in 1997, when my cousin's used to say that they relished this dish. It was like Greek and Latin to me. One day my Geetha Pinni ( My Mom's younger Sister) took me to a restaurant in Anna Nagar "Chariot" near the famous 14 shops.
       I joined my cousins who were waiting for me to have their brunch. They ordered burgers and hot dogs, some french fries and milkshakes for all of us. My cousin (Prashanthi's) explained me what a burger is and how it is made etc.
       Never in my dream, I thought I would do one. My son is a fan of burger, he likes it more Indianised with fresh vegetables and a veggie Pattie. Coming to this recipe.

Cuisine: Fusion Food
Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Cooking Time: 35 minutes ( Pressure Cook + Frying)

Ingredients:
Burger Buns: 2 nos ( Available in the Supermarkets)
Boiled potatoes: 2 nos
Onions finely chopped: 2 nos
Carrot finely chopped: 1 no
Beans finely chopped: 4 to 5
Cabbage or Lettuce leaves: 2 nos ( I used purple cabbage)
Mayonnaise: 2 tea spoon
Sliced tomatoes: 1no
Sliced Cucumber: 1/2 no ( 4 to 5 slices)
Bread crumbs: 2 tea spoon
Maida Paste: 2 tea spoon

Method:
1. Pressure cook Potatoes, Carrots, Peas, Beans to 6 to 7 whistles to a mashy consistency.
2. Slice Cucumber, Tomatoes and chopp the onions finely and keep it aside.
3. Take the vegetables, which has been pressure cooked and mash it well and make balls of medium    size ( size for Chapati) 
4. Take maida and make a thick paste of dosa batter consistency.
5. Dip the potato balls into the batter and roll it over the bread crumbs, so that bread crumbs is coated all over and flatten it.
6. Place this prepared patties in the refrigeration for 10 minutes. Take it out and shallow fry it in tawa or deep fry it.
7. Now arrange the burger, cut the burger bun into 2 halves. Place the patties, lettuce or cabbage apply mayonnaise and place sliced cucumber, tomatoes over it and close it with the other half of the bun.
8. Now your burger is ready.

Note:
1. Apply mayonnaise over the lettuce or cabbage leaf, otherwise  because of hot pattie it may becomes greezy.

Kaju Katli (Veggie Delights)

         
                                            Kaju Katli (Veggie Delights)

             You may wonder kaju katli, but how veggie delights, yes kaju katli in the shape of vegetables. During my childhood days, my mother used to get this from Buhari Sweets occasionally. It was shaped like tiny carrots, tomatoes and even apples.
             I wanted to try  these kaju veggies for a long time but was hesitant to use food colors. But I convinced myself saying Being First Anniversary of my blog yes!!. It has been a year since I started blogging. To celebrate it I made this kaju veggies.
             Coming to the recipe, you need to be little creative, everyone of us might have played with clay, making odd things. So likewise using this kaju dough make veggies.

Cuisine: Indian Sweet
Preparation Time: 30 minutes
Cooking Time: 10 minutes

Ingredients:
Whole Cashews: 1/2 cup
Sugar: 1/4 cup
Milk Powder: 1/2 cup
Water as needed
Ghee: 2 tea spoon ( For smearing in hands)
Food color: Orange and Green ( 1/2 a pinch each)

Method:
1. Dry roast the cashews and cool it down completely and pulse it in a mixie jar to a coarse powder.
2. In  a pan add sugar and water till it immerses and put it on a medium flame and stir it continuously till it reaches 1 string consistency.
3. Put off the flame and add the powdered cashews and mix it well, add the milk powder and knead it well. It comes to chapati dough consistency.
4. Before it cools completely, divide it into 3 portion, add orange food color to 1 portion and green to another portion and have the remaining as white.
5. Make or shape it into tiny carrots, raddish and cauliflower, smearing little ghee on your palms.
6. Now it is ready to serve.

Note:
1. I stays well for a week under refrigeration.
2. It is optional to add cardamom, if you wish you can do so. I did not use it.