Ulli vada

Ulli vada aka Onion pakoda is a quick and easy to make snack since most of the items would be available at home.

Ingredients:

Gram flour – 50 grams

Onion – 150 grams

Green Chillies – 10 grams

Red chilly powder – 10 grams

Fennel seeds – 5 grams

Coriander leaves

Water – ½ cup

Oil – to fry

Salt to taste

Method:

• Finely chop the onions and green chillies.
• In bowl, mix the onions, green chillies, gram flour, salt, red chilly powder and mix thoroughly with hand.
• Crush the fennel seeds and add the same to the above mix. Add coriander leaves.
• Add water little by little and make into a paste such that you are able to make balls out of it or any other shape.
• In a kadai pour oil.
• Check if the oil is hot enough by dropping a pinch of the mix. It should raise in oil immediately.
• Make small balls of the mix and drop in oil or else drop it in without any shape. I go for the second one.
• Fry it until it turns dark brown. Remove from oil and keep it in a strainer/tissue paper to remove the excess oil.

Serve hot ulli vada aka onion pakodas with hot tea.

Note:
You can add one spoon of rice flour in the mix if you want the pakodas to be more crisp.