patnam pakoda recipe /medu pakoda/medhu bonda
Ingredients
- Rice flour/arisi maavu - 1 cup
- Sieved kadalamavu/bengal gram dal flour - 1/4 cup
- salt to taste
- Red chilli powder - 3 tsp
- Asafoetida/hing - 1/4 tsp
- Baking soda - a pinch
- Ghee - 1 tbsp
- Green chilli ginger paste - 2 tsp
- One small big onion - fine chopped
- Some curry leaves
- Cashews - 4 tbsp(broken)
Instructions
- Grind an inch ginger with 2 green-chillies to coarse paste keep ready.2.Take sieved bengal gram flour in a mixing bowl with rice flour, needed salt, chilli powder, hing, baking soda, mix well.3.Then add ginger green chilli paste, chopped onion and ghee to this mixture.4.Mix well by adding water little at a time to a tight dough.5.Now add some curry leaves also and mix well then lastly add cashews and mix.6.Make balls and keep.7.Keep a kadai with oil to heat and when it heats up add these balls to fry golden.8.Adjust flame and cook the pakoda thoroughly and serve hot with chutney.
Notes
Instead of ghee you can use butter or even hot oil.
The flame while frying should be correct so that it cooks through the pakoda.
Spiciness can be increased according to your need.
The dough should not be kneaded for long just when they form the dough to make balls is enough.
The flame while frying should be correct so that it cooks through the pakoda.
Spiciness can be increased according to your need.
The dough should not be kneaded for long just when they form the dough to make balls is enough.