Onion bajji recipe
Onion bajji is an Indian snack item served as a tasty evening snack with a hot tea or coconut chutney. Big onions are used to make these bajjis, which are coated with besan/gram flour and deep fried, in hot oil.
Ingredients
Ingredients:
- Big onions - 3
- Besan/gram flour – 250 gm
- Rice flour – 3 tbsp
- Hing/Asafoetida – 1 pinch
- Chilli powder – ¾ tsp
- Cumin/Jeera seeds – ½ tsp
- Baking soda/powder – a pinch
- Ginger garlic paste – ½ tsp optional
- Salt – 1 tsp
- Water to mix
- Cooking oil for frying
Instructions
Preparation:
- Peel big onions and cut them into ring slices as shown. Arrange the slices carefully in a plate.
- Take enough cooking oil in a deep pan or kadai for frying bajjis.
Recipe:
- In a large bowl take mentioned quantity of besan flour, rice flour, salt, chilli powder, asafoetida, baking salt and cumin together. Mix all dry ingredients.
- Add ginger garlic paste if you like. This is purely optional. Without gg paste also this Onion bajji tastes great.
- Add around two cups(240ml cup used) of water to make a thick batter. The consistency of the batter should be as thick as idly batter as shown in picture. Add water gradually to get the correct consistency.
- Heat oil in a kadai for deep frying. You can heat the oil while mixing the batter. Check the heat by dropping a small drop of batter. If it is raising immediately that is correct heat to fry bajjis.
- Dip sliced onions carefully in the batter and drop into hot oil carefully from the corners and fry in medium flame. Fry 3 to 4 bajjis in a batch. Give enough space without crowding.
- Leave them untouched for about 2 mins till the bottom side of the bajjis are cooked and flip them carefully to the other side.
- Wait till the golden color comes and the bubbles are settling by this time. Carefully strain the onion bajjis and keep in a paper towel to remove excess oil.
- Serve hot with tea or coconut chutney. Enjoy these delicious onion bajjis just as it is.
Notes
Tips/notes: 1) Beginners should be careful while dropping bajjis in hot oil. 2) Instead of jeera seeds, ½ tsp of jeera powder can also be used. Cumin helps the digestion.
Nutrition
Calories: 150kcal
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