Aloo Bonda is a famous south indian snack made with potatoes. Its a kids favorite snack. Now we will see how to make aloo bonda or potato bonda.
Ingredients:
Potato - 3
Onion - 1
Green Chilly - 2
Turmeric Pwdr - a pinch
To Temper:
Mustard - 3/4 tsp
Oil - 2 tsp
Urad dhal - 1/4 tsp
Curry leaves - few
For batter:
Besan Flour - 1/2 cup
Rice Flour - 1/4 cup
Chilli powder - 1 tspn
Baking Soda - a pinch
Salt - as needed
Oil for frying.
Method:
1. Pressure cook potatoes, peel the skin and mash it.
2. Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, when it splutters, add finely chopped onions, green chillies and saute for a few minutes until onion turns transparent.
3. Add turmeric and add mashed potato, mix well and switch off the flame.
4. After it cools a little, make even sized balls out of it and keep it ready.
5. Mix besan, rice flour, chilli powder, salt and cooking soda.
6. Add water to make a thick batter. The batter should not be too thick nor too thin.
7. Heat oil in a kadai. To check if the oil is hot enough to fry the bondas, drop 1/2 tsp of batter into the oil, if it raises to the surface immediately, then the oil is ready to fry the bondas. Now reduce the flame to medium.
8.Dip the balls in the batter, so that it is well coated on all the sides.
9. Carefully drop the balls into the hot oil and fry the bondas until they turn light golden color.
10. Remove from oil and drain on a kitchen paper.
Serve hot with coconut chutney.
Medhu Vadai is a popular South Indian snack.They are crispy on outside and soft on inside. They are served with sambar and coconut chutney. We can also make sambar vadai, rasam vadai and curd vadai by soaking the vadai in sambar, rasam and curd. Lets see how to make the medhu vadai.
Ingredients:
Urad Dhal - 1 Cup
Green Chilly - 2
Coriander leaves - 1/4 Cup
Curry leaves - few
Rice Flour - 2 tspn
Baking Soda - a pinch
Hing - 1 pinch
Salt as required
Oil for frying.
Method:
1. Soak the urad dhal for 1 hour.
2. Drain the water and grind the dhal by sprinkling water to make a soft batter.
3. Now add coriander leaves, curry leaves, chopped green chilly, salt, hing, rice flour and baking soda to the batter and mix well.
4. Heat oil in a kadai. Once the oil is hot, reduce the flame to medium.
5. Take a bowl of water,wet your fingers and take a lemon size vada batter, flatten it on a plastic sheet and make a hole in the middle.
6. Now take the shaped dough in your hands and slip it into the hot oil.
7. Fry until it turns golden brown on both sides. Remove it from oil and place it in a paper towel to drain excess oil.
8. Repeat the same process for the remaining batter.
Vegetable cutlets are great blend of vegetables and spices. These are great as an appetizer or evening snack. Especially kids like it very much.
Ingredients:
Potato - 2
Vegetables - 1 Cup ( I used carrots,beans and peas)
Chopped Cilantro - 2 tspn
All Purpose flour - 3 tspn
Breadcrumbs - 1 Cup
Chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
Coriander Powder - 1 tsp
Curry Masala Powder - 1/2 tsp
Maida - 3 tspn
Oil to fry
Method:
1. Boil the potatoes until they are tender.
2. Once cooked peel the skin off and mash the potatoes.
3. Steam the chopped vegetables.
4. Squeeze the vegetable to drain the excess water and make it dry.
5. Mix all the ingredients together.
6. Add water to All Purpose flour to make a batter and keep aside.
7. Make the mixture into small balls and shape into flat round or heart shape.
8. Dip each one in the flour batter, and roll them into breadcrumbs and set aside.
9. Take a pan.Add oil and heat on medium flame.
10. Fry the cutlets until they are golden brown on both sides.
11. Repeat this until all cutlets are done.Serve hot with tomato ketchup.
Note: If the oil is too hot cutlets will burn, if oil is not hot enough cutlets will break.So make sure the oil is medium hot while frying.
Maida biscuits / Sweet Diamond Biscuits are very easy to make. Its my daughters favorite snack.It is one of the easy snack recipe that you can even make it for your kids whenever they want.These biscuits are quite
addictive.
Ingredients:
All Purpose Flour / Maida - 1 cup
Powdered Sugar - 1/2 cup
Baking Soda - 1/2 tsp
Salt a small pinch
Oil for deep frying
Ghee - 2 tbsp
Method:
1. Mix flour, salt, sugar, ghee and baking soda well.
2. Add water little by little. Using your hands, knead it to a
soft dough.Do not add more water.
3. Heat oil in a pan to deep fry.
4. Take the dough and knead for a minute and divide it into big balls.
5. Make each ball of dough into flat as chappathi. It should be medium thick not too thin or too thick.
6. Take a knife, cut the dough horizontally and vertically. Slowly,
remove them from the surface & keep them in a plate or tray to fry.
Repeat with the rest of the dough.
7. When the oil is hot enough, add it to the oil, turn heat to medium heat.
8. Fry well on both side until they turn light brown & crisp.
This is a very basic cookie. It is tasty and so easy to make when you want something sweet. My daughter loves vanilla cookies.
Ingredients:
All Purpose Flour - 1.5 cup
Baking Powder - 1/4 tbsp
Salt - 1/2 tbsp
Unsalted Butter - 3/4 cup
Sugar - 1 cup
Egg - 2
Vanilla Extract - 1 tbsp
Method:
1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
2. In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar.
3. Add the eggs and vanilla extract and continue to whisk for about 1 minute.
4. Add the flour, salt and baking powder and mix it all until its all combined.
5. Using a small spoon place dough on to the
parchment lined baking sheets, make sure to place them a few inches
apart.
6. Bake for about 10 minutes or until lightly golden brown around the
edges.
Allow it to cool completely and enjoy!
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