Cabbage Pakoda

Well, I wanted to make a quick snack today. So thought of making some pakodas. I had some cabbage left in the refrigerator and so i thought i'll add in some to the pakoda mix and it turned out really tasty. easy to make and a treat to your tastebuds.

All you need :

Gram flour - 1 1/2 cup

Rice flour - about 1/2 cup

Cabbage - thinly sliced about 2 1/2 cup

Onion - 1 sliced thin

Ginger - sliced thin about 2 tbsp

Green chillies - 4-5 chopped finely

Curry Leaves

Red chilli powder - about 1 tsp

Salt

Oil

This is how you do :

1. Mix all the ingredients well with your fingers. If need sprinkle very little water so that the flour coats the onion and cabbage.( Make sure you don't make it watery)

2. Heat oil in a deep frying vessel on a medium flame.

3. Drop the batter using your fingers in the oil to form small fritters and fry till they are cooked on all sides and turn golden brown.

4. Remove them onto a paper towel.

5. Serve with hot chai/ coffee.

This makes a wonderful snack espescially on a rainy evening :)

Smile :)

Chole masala - Amritsari Style :)

This one type of channa masala i was wanting to prepare from a while now. Finally I got a chance to make it today. This a slight variation from the other channa masala I made before.

You will need :

Soaked Chickpeas - 1 Cup boiled with some salt (dnt throw away the water)
While boiling just put in a tea bag.. it gives gud colour to the curry.
Cumin - 1 Tbsp
Masala Powder - made out of cinnamon, cloves and green cardomom - 1 Tsp
Onions - one large fine chopped

Tomato - One medium finely chopped

Ginger Garlic paste - about 1 Tbsp

Black Salt - to taste - This gives a very good dark color to the chole masala.
Dry Amla powder - 2 Tsp
Aamchur powder - 2 Tsp

Chilli Powder

Turmeric Powder

Channa Masala Powder - abt 1-2 tbsp

Ghee

Cilantro chopped

How you do it :

1. Heat ghee in a kadai and add the cumin and masala powder.

2. Add chopped onions and fry till golden brown

3. Add ginger garlic paste and fry for abt 2 min

4. Add chopped tomatoes and fry well so that u don t see any chunks of tomatos

5. Add rock salt, amala powder, aamchur powder, red chilli powder, pinch of turmeric channa masala powder.

6. Add the water(look out for the consistency of the gravy) from boiled chickpeas and let boil.

7. Add the chickpeas and simmer for few min.

8. Add chopped Cilantro and some add some chopped onions before you serve.

This gave a different taste because of the black salt and the amla powder and it was really good :)

This tastes real good with pooris, bhatura and rotis.

Go ahead and enjoy !!!