Thursday, March 11, 2010

Egg bonda / Egg bajji

Egg bonda or bajji - batter , Ingredients :

Besan flour - 1 cup
Rice flour - 2 to 3 tsp
salt - accdly
Asafotedia - 2 pinches
Manchurian mix or Chillie powder - 1 1/2 tsp ( here i have used manchurian mix)


And the batter looks like this :

Ofcourse you cannot make egg bonda or bajji without eggs :D. Boiled Eggs :

Some like to make bondas/bajjis with whole eggs. I like to cut them into halves :

Dip these eggs into the batter and deep fry them. Here you go yummy bajjis :
Serve them with any kind of chutney or tomato sauce. Good to go for an evening snack.

Pudhina Thogayal / Mint Chutney




Ingredients:

Mint - 2 bunch
Corriander - 2 bunch (washed and cleaned)
Grated coconut - 1 cup (washed and cleaned)
a cherry sized tamarind soaked in little water.
Green chillies - 2
Ginger - 1 inch ( crushed)
Ginger - about 1/2 an inch slightly masked in mortar 'n pestel.
Asafotedia - 1/4 tsp
Oil - accordingly
mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
urud dal - 1/2 tsp
Jeera -1/2 tsp
Asafoetedia - 1/4 tsp
Salt to taste

Procedure:
Take a medium sized pan, dispense 1/2 tsp of oil. When the oil is heated add the mint and corriander leaves and saute it for just few minutes and set it off. Now add the leaves, grated coconut, green chillies, ginger and soaked tamarind.
Into the mixer, goes all of the ingredients along some salt and grind them until slightly fine but not too fine.
Now take a pan add about 5 to 6 tbsps of oil and splutter some mustard seeds, 1/4 tsp of jeera, urud dal and transfer the contents of the mixer into this pan . Add some asafoetedia. Turn of the heat after 2 mins.

This is almost like a chutney but since we have added dals , it is supposed to be called as Pudhina Thogayal. Will taste yummy with white rice and rasam, especially during cough and cold, soothes your throat with its natural natural (herbal) medicinal property!