Milagu thattai/pepper thattai/thattu vadai

Thatti is quite popular dish around south India. One of my favourite savoury snack. I made this for krishna jayanthi and forget to share here so posting it as diwali snack.

I used to buy this as prasadham in temple during my childhood. Now I'm so glad that I had made it by my own.

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Vella seedai

Hey guys I am here with my favourite recipe. During my childhood I used to buy this often. This seedai will be packed in thick plastic cover that you can't open it without scissors. Once I searched scissors and couldn't found it so used knife to cut open but atlast I injured my finger deeply and starts to bleed and leads to stitching in hospital. From that day I stopped buying it.

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Aval murukku/poha murukku

Hey I made this aval murukku for krishna jayanthi. Today went to flour mill to grind murukku maavu for this diwali only then I remembered already one murukku recipe is in my drafts for a long time.

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Vazhaipoo vadai/banana flower fritters

Vazhaipoo vadai is the first thing comes to my mind when I see vazhaipoo. It's not only tasty snack but healthy too.

I have posted how to clean vazhaipoo for the beginners so anybody can cook this crispy, tasty snack.

Hope you too love it. Give it a try and let me know your results.

Preparation time:10minutes
Cooking time:2minutes per batch
Soaking time:2 hours
Makes:14

Ingredients:

• Vazhaipoo 1cup cleaned and chopped(for more details click here)
• Channa dal 1/3cup soaked for 2hours
• Onion/periya vengayam 1 medium sized chopped finely
• Fennel seeds/sombu 1/4teaspoon
• Curry leaves a spring chopped
• Green chilli 1 chopped finely
• Ginger 1/2 teaspoon grated
• Salt to taste

• Oil for deep fry

Method:

Clean vazhaipoo/banana flower (for more details click here)
Blend the soaked channa dal coarsely without adding any water. If you add water then you can't make vadai. Take this in mixing bowl.
Add all the ingredients mentioned above except oil.
Now make a dough. Roll it into balls and flattened using your palm. I had done both as vadai and balls.
Deep fry it in a hot oil.
Serve it hot.

Stepwise pictures:

Take soaked channa dal in blender.

Blend it coarsely without adding any water.

Take this in a mixing bowl.

Add in fennel seeds.

Now add in green chilli.

Add in curry leaves.

Add chopped onion.

Add in grated ginger.

Add in cleaned and chopped vazhaipoo.(for more details click here)

Add salt to taste.

Mix well and shape it to balls and flattened using your palm.Repeat this till dough gets over. Arrange it in a plate.

Deep fry it.

Drain excess oil in newspaper or tissue paper.

Serve hot.

Notes:

• If your dough gets watery and couldn't shape it add a tablespoon of gram flour.
• When you drop vadai in hot oil if your vadai starts to separate then add a tablespoon of gram flour.

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