Tired of samosas and chaat? Have you tried kalmi vada or onion kachori?
Recipes and photographs: Kind courtesy Food Wharf Kitchen, Water Kingdom's in-house restaurant, Mumbai.
Kalmi Vada
Ingredients
- 1 cup chana dal soaked for 3 hours
- 1 tsp turmeric powder
- 1 tsp red chilli powder
- 2 green chillies chopped
- 1 inch ginger chopped
- 1 onion chopped
- 1 tsp fennel seeds
- Salt to taste
- Oil for frying
Method
- Grind dal into a coarse paste.
- Add all spices and chopped onion. Add salt and mix well.
- Make equal sized balls from the mixture. Flatten them using the palm of your hand.
- Heat oil in a kadai and fry the vadas on medium to low flame for 10 to 12 minutes till they are golden brown.
- Serve hot with chutney.
Pyaz Kachori
Ingredients
- 4 onion finely chopped
- 1 bowl all-purpose flour
- Oil for frying
- Salt to taste
- 1 tsp kasuri methi
- 1 tbsp besan/gram flour
- 1/2 tsp carom seeds
- 1 tsp red chilli powder
- 1 tsp dry mango powder
Method
- Mix flour, carom seeds, oil and salt to make dough by adding little water.
- In a kadhai, heat oil. Add onion and sauté. Add besan.
- After you roast the besan, add salt, dry mango powder, coriander powder, red chilli and kasuri methi in it. Now let it cool.
- Make small balls from the dough. Take one ball and make a small roti.
- Fill the stuffing and roll it again.
- Fry all kachoris on low flame till they turn crispy and golden in colour. Serve hot.
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