Tea time. Hah!
It’s evening time and with tea what’s better than a plate of something piping
hot served with it. The Indian palate likes the tastes of the deep fried
pakoras, why alone pakoras, it can be garam garam samosas/singara as in Bengali
or even some vegetable chops or cutlets or even…I can just breathe with these
thoughts... Why me even others can go on naming so many mouth smacking
snacks…hot and piping…to go with their evening tea.
Bah! It’s
been a long gap and I’m back. Not that I didn’t cook or eat or had shut down my
kitchen, but writing here, I hadn’t been doing for many many days, is it days?
no months, no no more than a year. Not that I wanted to stay away so long but
something else had held me back.
So what,
again the key board has started going tak tak tak and …
It’s so
simple to make pakoras. For my dish I’ve used:
Besan or
gram flour: 1 ½ cup (sift and keep it aside)
2
Onions cut into thin long strips
1 potato
peeled and cut like (thin) French fries
2 green
chilies chopped
Haldi ¼ tsp
for colour
Red chilli
powder ¼ spoon (add this if you like to feel the heat)
Salt to
taste
Baking
powder ½ tsp
Water for
the batter
Oil for
deep frying.
After
taking the besan in a bowl added all the ingredients except the oil and water.
I’ve used my hand to mix all the ingredients, that’s how I like. To this
started adding water and mixed well to get a thick batter…consistency not thin
and flowing and not very thick either…my friends have understood for they too
make pakoras at home.
Heat enough
oil in a kadhai/wok. Slowly in went the dumplings into the hot oil as I sang “you’r
my dumpling dumpling hello honey bunny”. Fried till it got the golden colour and then
out they came onto the tissue covered plate. The same tune and the next
consignment was done. Why do some jingles make so much impact on a person…don’t
have an answer… And the end result you can see from the photo.
There was
some dhania chutney to go with it. It’s such a pleasure in winter to gobble up
such fries freshly cooked in the kitchen. I think you too like the ones from
your kitchen. But, of course, sometimes those served by roadside thelas taste
so good. Isn’t it for a change? Think about the hygiene factor ha ha ha…
© gouriguha
2013
