Monday, March 14, 2011

Cauliflower Pakoda

Cauliflower Pakoda:

Humm,its 6:30 PM,my husband would start from his office and reach in half an hour.He will be hungry and even iam ,as i also came from office
just now.
I have permission ;) to prepare things with besan only 3 days a week ...and remaining shud be maggii or packed vadapav which we get over here.
and thought of using some vegetable in fridge which is about to be dead...yesss Cauliflowerr !!!

I just decided to do cauliflower pakoda,sooo fasttt and very easy to prepare.Have a glance .

Required:

Cauliflower: 12 florets
Oil for deep fry.
Green chillies : 4

Bajji/ fritter Ingredients:
pepper powder : 1 spoon
curd                   : 1/4 cup
senagapindi / besan : 1 cup
Maida                  : 1 spoon
Rice flour        :1 spoon
salt                   : 1 spoon
chilli powder          : 1 spoon
amchoor powder         : 1 spoon ( optional)
saunf                  : 1 spoon
Water         : To get a consistent thickness

preparation:
1. Boil the cauliflower florets in water for 5 mins and then allow it to cool
2. Mix all the ingredients under bajji/fritter ,adding water slowly to get bajji consistency.
3. Now coat the florets with the batter so that it gets coated evenly and leave it for 5 to 10 mins based on your convinience.
   You can also fry it immediately.
4. Now heat oil for deep fry
5. Once the oil is hot enough, deep fry the marinated florets.

While frying the florets ,fry the green chillies also for 2 mins ,get them out and add some salt to them or add lemon juice on the chillies.Now we are all set.

Serve the florets with the fried chillies dipped with lemon juice.
Yummyyyy...Isnt it?

Note: Before frying the chillies put holes to them using a safety pin to avoid chipat -chit pat during the frying :)

Happy cooking !!!

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