Kugan's Kitchen Part 2

Thanks Shanthy for your nice compliments and post.
Shanthy, your grinder must be wet not dry.
I am sure you would have just washed before grinding.

Your urad dal will have little liquid in it after straining.
add about 6 tbs of water in the grinder.
add little urad dal and switch on the grinder.
keep adding little urad dal with little sprinkling of water,
every time. When you find the urad dal very very thick, sprinkle little water. This way you will not get watery dough.
The dough will be spongy.

Never add rice or flour to the dough. your vadai will be little hard.
Vadais made without flours will be very spongy to eat.
This is how I make Shanthy.
There may be different ways and style.
So forgive me if I am wrong.
Thanks. Kugan98


Note : If your dough is watery, there is no choice but to add little flour. I have no experince, you can try with urad dal flour.
Rice flour will make your vadai hard. Some say you get crisp vadai by adding rice flour. Sorry I have not tried.

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POTATO BONDA

Ingredients:
The Filling:

5 big potatoes boiled till ¾ cooked
1 small onion chopped
4 green chillies chopped
¼ inch ginger chopped
¼ tsp tumeric powder
1 tsp urad dal
½ tsp channa dal
½ tsp mustard seeds
Little coriander leaves chopped
Little curry leaves chopped
Salt to taste
Little lime juice

For Batter:
1 cup besan flour
¼ cup rice flour
Little red chillie powder
A pinch of baking powder
A pinch of asafetida powder
Little salt
Oil for frying.

Method:
Peel and mash the potatoes well.
In a pan add 1 tsp of oil, when hot, add in the mustard seeds,
urad dal and channa dal. Fry a bit, add in the onions, green chillies
ginger, and curry leaves , sauté for a little while.

Mix all these with the mashed potato, add also the coriander leaves, lime juice and salt. Shape the into lime sized balls and keep them aside.

Mix all the ingredients in the batter section, except the oil.
Add enough water to make a thick batter. A bit thicker than dosai consistency.

Heat oil in a wok for deep frying.
Take the ball one at a time and dip in the coating batter.
Slip each one carefully into the hot oil.
Fry them until they turn golden brown.
Serve hot as it is or with coconut chutney.


The Potato Balls Before Frying:

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The Fried Bondas:

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kugan, thanks for a nice explanation about radish. can u please post me raitha and grated radish poriyal . thanks in advance
selvi

Also kugan, give me some receipes in beetroot too.
selvi

potato bonda looks yummy, i do make like this. But now afraid of oil coz i made too much snacks for diwali. so break for atleast couple of months.

Thanks Selviem for your response.
You request are coming soon.
I can understand too much of fryings.
Anyway bonda is a common snack.
As I said before, its for young brides who live far away from
home and who are new to cooking.
Thanks selviem.

Suvai must be having a long break.

Suvai sent me this recipe.
I made this for lunch today.
I made potato masala and onion raitha as side dishes.
Every one enjoyed it.
Thanks Suvai for the recipe.
Kugan98.


SUVAI"S RECIPE
Here is one of our family fav recipes ;
Mint Rice
1 big bunch of mint
1 big bunch of kothamali
1 Tblspn each of garlic & ginger paste
1Tblspn Corriander seeds (naan ithai podaamal thaan seiven nalla varum)
(Grind all the above & keep aside)

4 onions chopped fine
4 tomatoes chopped fine
6 green chillies (according to your taste)
3-4 cups cooked rice.

method: Heat oil/ghee put in Jeera & bay leaf, add cut onions till onions become slightly pink. Now add the ground masala & keep turning till the oil oozes out. Add the chopped tomatoes & salt.
Cook well till it becomes thickish (mothai maathri varanum) now add in the cooled cooked rice & mix.
Enjoy with Thayir pachadi & vadam & vathal. or appalam.


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kugan,
mint rice i will try and let u know
also can u plz post oats upma of ur version.
selvi

Hi,
I thank u all for the Welcome given to me.I have little experience in cooking as i started to learn cooking after marriage.I bought cookery books and collected recipes in net(major credit goes to this hub).So I dont have any recipe.But i will try the recipes posted in this hub and i will give my compliments.
Kugan can u post all the radish recipes told by u.I like radish very much and i am eager to try your recipes.Thanks!

Thanks Selviem, today I will post oats pongal
and oats upma.
I have the picture for oats pongal.
I also have the recipes for all the radish dishes.
I do not have the pictures.
I had them all in my laptop. Now they say the laptop is corrupt
and all the pictures are missing.
I will cook again and post with the pictures.
Thanks Selviem. Take care. kugan 98