Quick Onion Pakoda

Onion Fritter, Vengaaya Bajji, Pyaaz pakora, piyaz pakoras, vengaya pakkoda

Ingredients:

• Onions: 2

• Rice flour: 2 tbsp

• Corn flour (chola maavu): 1tsp

• Gram flour (kadalai maavu, chickpea flour, garbanzo flour, or besan): 1tsp 

• Chili powder: 1tsp

• Curry leaves: a few

• Edible oil for deep frying

• Salt to taste

(Use 2 tsp of gram flour if not using corn flour)

Method of preparation:

• Slice the onions thin.

• Take a bowl, mix onions and salt.

• After sometime add chili powder and curry leaves.

• Mix well.

• Add gram flour, corn flour and rice flour and mix them well without adding water. (If water is added a little, we get non-crispy pakoda)

• Heat the edible oil in a pan, wok, iruppuch chatti, vaanali or kadai.

• Sprinkle the prepared mixture over hot oil.

• Fry till they become brown.

Serve this delicious and crispy Onion Pakoda hot with or without chutney (Thuvaiyal).