Onion pakoda recipe | Eerulli bajji | Neerulli baje
By Latha on April 23rd, 2016
Onion pakoda or eerulli bajji or neerulli baje recipe explained with step by step pictures and a video. Onion pakoda or eerulli bajji are deep fried onion fritters prepared using onion, gram flour, rice flour, red chilli powder, curry leaves, carom seeds and asafoetida. I have another cabbage pakoda or kosu vade recipe on this website, which is another tasty deep fried snacks and is a perfect choice if you don't like onion.
I have used carom (ajwain) seeds, which I find it more tasty. If you wish you can replace it with cumin seeds or crushed coriander seeds. Sometimes I add finely chopped ginger and garlic, that also tastes great!!. Try this tasty, crispy and easy snack on this weekend and enjoy with a cup of tea. I love onion and If you also love onion like me, then you must check my this onion dosa post.
Preparing crispy onion pakoda is very easy. The key factor to get crispy pakoda or bajji is, not to add too much of water while preparing the dough. Either no water or very minimum water would be sufficient.
If you are looking for more deep fried snacks or fritters recipes then do check my mangalore buns, doddapathre bajji, crispy chilli bajji, goli baje, stuffed mirchi bajji, kayi vade and maddur vada recipes.
I have made a video on this recipe with Kannada narration, which I have embedded it below. Kindly have a look.
Preparation time: 10 min
Cooking time: 10 min
Serves: 4
Ingredients: (measuring cup used = 240ml)
- 2 large onions
- 1 tbsp finely chopped curry leaves
- 1 tbsp finely chopped coriader leaves
- 1 green chili finely chopped (optional; I didn't use)
- 1/2 cup gram flour
- 2 tbsp rice flour
- 1/2 - 1 tsp red chili powder
- Big pinch asafoetida
- Small pinch cooking soda
- Big pinch carom seeds
- Salt as per your taste
Instructions for making onion pakoda:
- Slice the onions length wise and take it in a bowl.
- Add in finely chopped curry leaves, coriander leaves and salt.
- Give a quick mix and rest it for 5 minutes.
- In another wide bowl, take gram flour, rice flour, chili powder, asafoetida, cooking soda and carom seeds.
- Add in marinated onion (salt mixed onion). Squeeze and mix it well. Do not add any water.
- Since the onion mixed with salt leaves out the water, you need not add any extra water. And if you feel the dough is watery, add some more gram flour. You can add a tbsp of hot oil, to make the pakoda more crispy.
- Heat oil in a deep frying pan. When the oil is hot take a fistful of dough and drop it in to the hot oil in small amounts. Do not put it like big lumps.
- Flip and fry the pakodas under medium flame. Take them out once the bubbles are subsided and pakodas reach golden brown colour.
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