Spicy Bread Bajji

Spicy Bread Bajji recipe:
Ingredients:
3 Bread Slices,100-150 gms besan, 1/2 spn ginger garlic paste, 1/2 spn red chilli powder, 1/2 spn dhaniya and jeera powder together. 1 spn sour curd, salt to taste and 1/4th spn baking soda, a little hot water for mixing. Oil for frying.

Tools: Heavy bottomed pan for frying.

Method:
Cut bread slices into 4 pices each in the shape of triangles.
Take a clean bowl and mix all ingredinets together except bread slices to make a thick batter.
Heat oil in a pan sufficient for frying the bread slices.
Dip each bread slice in the batter and fry in the hot oil until golden brown.

Spicy bread bajjis are ready to serve!
Serve hot with ketchup or mint chutney. (Optional)

Cheers,
Chandini

Anapakaya pappu (Ridge gourd and Dal)

Anapakaya pappu (Bottle gourd dal)
Ingredients:
Anapakaya bottle gourd (250-300gms peeled and dices into small cubes), 1 cup Mung Dal(yellow split mung washed and drained). For the tempering
1or 2 pods of garlic finely chopped, Hing(1/2 spn), mustard seeds (1spn),Red Chillies (4-6 as per taste), Curry leaves (8-10), Jeera (1/2 spn. Oil for tempering and hot water for boiling.

Method:
Heat oil in a wok add hing then mustard seeds once they splitter add garlic, red chillies, jeera and curry leaves. Now add anapkaya( bottle gourd) and stir for a minute. Add 1 spn turmeric powder and stir. now add the mung dal. Keep stirring for 5-6 mins until dal partly is golden brown. Now add boiling water (double the quantity of the dal). Boil on medium flame with lid on until dal is cooked softly. Once cooked add salt to taste.
Serve hot with rice or roti.

Tips: Add more water if required to cook dal completely.
You could also pressure cook the dal. But give just one steam on high flame.


Cheers,
Chandini

Chegodi (Andhra Snack)

Chegodi (Andhra Snack) recipe:
Ingredients:
Rice flour 250gms, sesame seeds, red Chilli powder, salt to taste, hing(asefotedia), hot water 125 ml. Oil for frying.

Method:
Mix all ingredients except hot water in a dry bowl. Now boil water add to the dry mixture and put a lid on so that the steam does not escape. Let it sti until it cools completely. Here we are allowint the rice flour to cook with the steam. once its cool or warm mix well into a dough just like we do for chapatis. Now pinch off small pieces of the dough and roll out into cylindrical long shapes and attach the ends to make a circle.
Heat oil in a pan and deep fry until golden brown. chegodis are ready to eat.

Tips:
These can be made in advance and in huge quatities as well as they can be stored for over 2 weeks.

Cheers,
Chandini

Masala vada

Masala Vada Recipe:
Ingredients:
150 gms Chana Dal, Spring onions 6-7, green chillies 3-4, chopped coriander, cury leaves 4-5,Salt to taste, Garam masala (cloves 4, 1 cinnamon stick, and geera 1 spn- dry roasted and ground to a powder. Oil for frying.

Tools: Heavy bottomed pan for frying and mixer grinder to make the vada batter.

Method:
Soak chana dal for 1hour.keep aside 2-3 table spns of dal. Now in a mixer grinder add gram masala, green chilies, salt and remaining chanadal and grind into a coarse paste with little water.(The texture should just be right to make into round flat shapes for the vada) take this mixture in a bowl and add curry leaves,chopped coriander, chopped spring onions and the 3spns of dal that was kept aside. The batter is ready.

Heat oil in a pan for frying the vadas. Now from the batter make small round balls and press them flat. Put the vada in the oil and fry till golden brown.
Delicious vada is ready. serve hot!

Cheers,
Chandini