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..

Mushroom Cutlet

Mushroom is my favorite, also for my hubby too. This weekend I thought of trying something different with it and came up with this cutlet. I am so happy that it turned out sooooooooo well. It was really yummy :)

Ingredients:
Button Mushroom - 12 nos small (Chop to fine pieces)
Potato - 3 small (Boil and mash)
Onion - 2 medium (Chop to fine pieces)
Shelled Green Peas - 1/4 cup (Boil and cook)
Green Chilly - 3 nos (Chop to fine pieces)
Ginger - 1 inch (Chop to fine pieces)
Garlic - 1 clove (Chop to fine pieces)
Curry Leaves - 1 sprig (Chop)
Coriander Leaves - 2 sprig (Chop)
Turmeric Powder - 1/4 t spoon
Chilly Powder - 1 t spoon
Garam Masala - 1/2 t spoon
Salt - To taste
Cooking Oil - 2 table spoon (For masala) &150 ml (For shallow frying)
Egg - 2 nos
Bread Crumbs - 1 1/2 cup

Preparing Masala:

1. Heat oil in a pan and saute the sliced onions till golden brown.
2. Add chopped green chilly, ginger, garlic and saute well.
3. Add salt to taste, turmeric, red chilly and garam masala powder and mix well for around 20-30 seconds.
4. Add chopped mushrooms, green peas and curry leaves and stir well.
5. Take a bowl and transfer the mashed potatoes to it.
6. Transfer the prepared masala to the bowl and mix it well.
7. Add the chopped coriander leaves to the mix.

Preparing Cutlet:

1. Beat the eggs in a bowl and keep it aside.
2. Take the bread crumbs in a flat plate and keep it aside.
3. Make small balls out of the masala, flat it, dip in the beaten eggs and immerse in bread crumbs to get a thin layer of it.

Make sure that you are getting fine bread crumbs. We got slightly thick one which is in fact used for making nuggets.

Cooking:
Heat a tava with oil for shallow fry
Once heated fry the cutlets on both sides in medium flame.
Cutlets are now ready to serve.
Serve it with ketchup.

Tips:
If you don't prefer egg, you can use all purpose flour (maida) for making the dipping mixture. Just take all purpose flour in a bowl and mix it with some water. Your dipping mixture is ready.
Don't dip your cutlet for more than 2 seconds in your dipping mixture. Also make sure that you are immersing it in bread crumbs immediately.

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.