Who does’t love bajjis or pakoras. It is a very popular deep fried snack served with tea. It is usually prepared with onions, potatoes, raw plantain, brinjals, chillies, bread etc. You do not need much ingredients to prepare this snack and the great thing is that it can be prepared in a jiffy. Moreover we will always have besan and onions at home. Today we will learn how to make onion bajji following this easy recipe.
Onion Bajji Recipe
Ingredients needed
Besan / kadalai mavu / gram flour -1 cup
Chilli powder – 1-2 tsp
Cooking soda (sodium bicarb) – 2 pinches
Onions -2
Oil – 1 tsp
Oil for deep frying the bajjis
Preparation
Peel and thinly slice the onions and keep it ready.
Method
Now we will prepare the bajji batter –
In a bowl mix together besan, chilli powder, 1 tsp oil, salt needed and cooking soda.
Add water and mix it nicely for 2-3 minutes. (My mother tells me that by mixing like this, you will get delicious and puffy bajjis) The batter should not be too thick nor watery. It should coat the vegetables well when dipped into it. ( I added little less than 3/4 cup of water for 1 cup of besan)
Heat oil in a kadai. (to check if the oil is hot enough to fry the bajjis, add a drop of bajji batter into the oil, if it raises to the surface immediately, then the oil temperature is right for frying the bajjis)
Once the oil is heated, reduce the heat to medium. Now dip the thinly sliced onions in the bajji batter (see to it that it is well coated with the bajji batter) and drop it gently into the oil.
Fry both sides until golden brown and remove it from the oil using a slotted ladle. Keep them in a paper towel to drain off the excess oil.
Repeat the same process for the rest of the onion slices.
Enjoy hot bajjis as such or with tomato ketchup, coconut chutney or green chutney.
Note
You can fry 4-5 bajjis at a time depending on the amount of oil you use.
You can add a pinch of carom seeds to the batter (omam in Tamil, ajwain in Hindi) if you like the taste. It helps in digestion.
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yesterday i was having this in saravana bhavan 🙂 i seriously i forget my diet and myself too : P my all time favorite !
super yummy snack
looks great.. 🙂
now can someone actually not like vengaya bajji?? Perfect for the rains here
Its raining here and am craving for some
Pple who want to avoid Soda, can add little rice flour (arisi Maavu) for the crispness and pluffyness
wow very nyc description
The bajjis look awesome…all you need is a cup of tea and some friends 🙂
Perfect tea time snack,yummy
This is very nice.
Kindly show onion khekada bhajis, without water, recipe step by step.
An all time fav of mine.. Yummy !
My favorite local store, India Sweets & Spices in Atwater Village (Los Angeles) has shown some of your recipes on their Facebook page and I just had to check out your bhaji recipe!
I'll follow your blog on my own now but I hope you gain a lot of fans from the posts that India Sweets has made.
Did you know besan flour is used in France and that area of the Mediterranean for a pancake they call soca or socca? One recipe even shows a bag of the flour with the name Nadu Besan Flour!
Small world when the food is good.
Thank you for sharing your recipes.
I tried just now. Wow.. Delicious it was..