Green Chilly Pakoda.

Special Green chillies are available for making Pakodas. These pakodas are nice to have with Tea or coffee at any time of the day.

Things Needed :

Green chillies : 5 to 6

Gram flour ( Channa flour ) : 1 cup

Chilly powder : 1/2 tea spoon

jeera : 1/2 tea spoon

Salt :to taste

Oil : 1 cup

Water: 1/4 cup

Method :
Take a bowl . Add channa flour , salt, red chilly powder and jeera. Mix well thoroughly . Now add required water and prepare dough . It should be idly batter consistency. keep aside.

Now cut each chilly strait in the middle horizontally. Take away the seeds inside in them, and keep it aside.

Keep a pan on the fire. Add oil and heat. Take the cut green chilly one by one and dip it into the channa batter and fry them until golden brown and remove from the oil . Fry all the chillies and serve them with tomato sauce or Mundakki Oggarane .

Note : Do not cut the top of chilly as it is easy to hold and dip in the batter. You can also fill the chilly with rasam powder or methi powder mixture and then dip in the batter then fry in oil.

Serves 3

Mundakki Oggarane.

Mundakki (Fluffy beaten rice ) oggarane is also a chat and you can have it for break fast and as snack in the evening too.

Things Needed :

Mundakki : 2 to 3 cups

Onions : 2 to 3

Green chillies : 3

Curry leaves : 5 to 6

Coconut : 2 Table spoons

Coriander leaves : 2 sticks

Channa nuts( Huri kadale in kannada or pottu kadale in Tamil and Malayalam ). : 2 to 3 Table spoons

Salt :to taste.

Ground Nuts : 2 Tea spoons

Oil : 2 Table spoons

Urd daa: 1/2 tea spoon

Mustard seeds : 1/2 tea spoon.

Method :

Cut green chillies and onions in to small pieces . Dry grind channa nuts in to powder and keep it aside.

Keep a pan on the fire. Put oil and heat. Add mustard seeds and urd daal . let it spurt . Add ground nuts fry a little .Add curry leaves . Add cut onions and green chillies . Fry for two minutes and wash Mundakki (Puri ) and squeeze out the water from it and add it to the onion and fry thoroughly . Add salt and mix well . Add coconut and powdered channa and mix well . Add cut coriander leaves and serve Mundakki oggarane with Hot Green chilly pakoda..

Note : You need to wash Mundakki just before adding to the fried onions. Do not soak Mundakki in water for a long time..

Serves: 2.