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mundri paruppu pakoda /cashew pakoda recipe

mundri paruppu pakoda /cashew pakoda recipe

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Total Time 20 minutes
Servings: 4
Course: Side Dish, Snack
Cuisine: Indian, SouthIndian
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • Bengal gram flour/besan - 1/2 cup
  • Cashews /mundri - 100 gm
  • Rice flour/ Arisi maavu - 1/4 cup
  • Butter/ghee - 3/4 tbsp
  • Salt as per taste
  • Chilli powder - 1 tsp
  • Some curry leaves
  • Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp,hing -2 pinches
For paste:
  • Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp
  • some mint leaves
  • Green chillies - 2

Method
 

  1. 1.First make a paste of ginger garlic, green chilli and mint and keep ready.
    In a large mixing bowl take besan,rice flour, green paste, hing, needed salt, turmeric powder, chilli powder and ghee mix.
    Then add cashews and curry leaves, sprinkle water and make a tight dough.
    Now heat a kadai with oil.
    Sprinkle out the dough when heated adjust the flame then and there and fry till done.
    Take out in a tissue.
    mundri paruppu pakoda /cashew pakoda recipe

Notes

While frying don’t over fry the dough as the cashews will burn quickly.
When taken out it will be little undercooked but after it cools it may become crisp.
Spiciness can be adjusted according to taste.
Cashews should be slit length wise for making this pakoda.