Parippu Vada And Awards

Parippu vada is one of the common snack served with evening tea & is popular across kerala in thattukadas. My mom is an expert in making this & is my favorite snack.

Ingredients:
Toor Dal - 1 cup
Onion - 2 nos small (Chopped into fine pieces)
Green Chilly - 2 nos (Chopped into fine pieces)
Curry Leaves - 1 sprig (Chopped into fine pieces)
Turmeric Powder - 1/8 t spoon (a pinch)
Chilly Powder - 1/4 t spoon
Salt - To taste
Oil - 200 ml

Preparation:

1. Soak toor dal for about half an hour. Then grind it using a blender without any water. Don't make it a smooth paste. 5-8 seconds will do.
2. Then add turmeric powder, chilly powder, salt, chopped onions, green chillies and curry leaves and mix well.
3. Heat a pan with oil.
4. Make small balls out of the mix, flatten it, and fry it in oil.
5. Delicious parippu vada is ready. It is a great evening snack.

Tips:
I normally prefer shallow frying. In case of shallow frying, you need to fry both sides of the vada.

Awards

I am so happy that my blogger friends Nithu, Renu, Beena & Devi has shown their love and shared some awards with me. They all shared me the below 2 awards.

Renu & Devi has also shared Smart Food Blogger, Kreativ Blogger and Thank You awards. Thanks a ton Renu, Nithu, Devi and Beena. Very much excited these days with lots of lovely awards and wishes.

I would luv to share all these awards to all my blogger friends. Please feel free to collect it and post it in your blogs..

Onion Bhaji

Ingredients:
Onion - 2 medium  (Sliced into fine pieces)
Gram flour (Kadalamavu) - 1 1/2 cup
Plain Flour (Maida) - 2 table spoon
Salt - to taste
Coriander leaves - 4 sprigs (Chopped into fine pieces)
Green chillies - 4 no.s (Sliced into fine pieces)
Ghee - 3 tspoon
Cooking Oil - 300ml for frying
Curry leaves - 1 sprig
Garlic - 3 cloves (Finely chopped)
Cumin seed - 1/2 t spoon

Preparation:

1. Take a bowl and add gram flour, plain flour, salt, ghee and mix well.
2. Add sliced onions, green chilly, chopped coriander, garlic cumin seeds, curry leaves.
3. Sprinkle some water and mix all together well. The dough should not be too watery.
4. Heat a pan and add 300 ml for frying.
5. Take small dough and fry it in oil.
6. Ready to serve with sauce if required, combination with tea.
7. A good evening snack.