Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 15 minutes
Serves: 6
Ingredients:
1 cup split moong dal
1 cup rice
1 onion finely chopped
1 big or 2 small potatoes grated
1-2 green chilies finely chopped
1" ginger grated
1/2 tsp garam masala or sabzi masala
1/2 tsp dhania powder
1/4 tsp degi mirch powder
a pinch of asafoetida
a pinch of baking soda
salt to taste
oil for deep frying
Method (vidhi):
- Mix rice an dal in a bowl , wash them and soak them for 3-4 hours.
- Drain out excess water and coarsely grind the soaked mixture.
- Take out the mixture in the bowl and mix rest of the ingredients except oil.
- Heat oil in a kadahi and carefully drop spoon full of batter at a time in hot oil then drop more at a distance in the same lot.
- Lower the heat and let the pakodas cook over medium heat.Turn the side and cook from the other side as well till they become brown in color.
- Remove them from oil with a slotted spoon on a napkin and serve hot along with tamarind chuttney, green chuttney or with ketchup.