Onion Ring

Ingredients:

·    Onion: 1

·    Gram flour (Kadalai maavu / Besan): 1 cup

·    Buttermilk (Mor / Moru): ½ cup

·    Baking powder: 1 tsp

·    Edible oil: for frying

·    Pepper to taste

·    Salt to taste

Method of preparation:

·      Peel the onion.

·      Slice horizontally like disks of about ½ centimetre thickness.

·      Separate these disks into rings.

·      Soak the onion rings in buttermilk for about half an hour.

·      Take gram flour, salt, pepper, and baking powder in a bowl and mix well. Add
              a little water and stir well.

·      Heat oil in a wok (iruppu chatti, vanali, vaanali, kadai, karahi, or kadhai) over 
        medium flame.

·      Take a few onion rings from buttermilk, dip in the batter, put in oil and deep
         fry them.

·       On frying, remove from wok and drain the excess oil.

·       Repeat for the remaining rings.

Serve hot with any chutney or sauce.