Recipes for after-school snacks?

Ingredients:

1 1/4 rice flour

1 channa dal flour

200 gm Cashew nuts

1 onion

2 Red Chilly Powder / 2 - 4 green chilly

1 pinch baking soda

1 Ghee

Salt

Oil to fry

Method:

Mix all the ingredients in a bowl and add cut onion and red chilly powder or green

chilies in that.

Cut cashew nuts and add with the dough.

The dough must be very thick.

Heat oil in a pan and put the dough into small pieces in the oil

Make pakodas like this and allow them to become golden brown

Remove from the fire and serve as evening snack.

Ingredients:

1 1/4 rice flour

1 channa dal flour

200 gm ground nuts

1 onion

2 sp. Red chilly powder

1 pinch baking soda

1 so. Ghee

Salt

Oil to fry

Method:

Mix all the ingredients in a bowl and add cut onion and red chilly powder in that.

Peel ground nuts and add with the dough.

The dough must be very thick.

Heat oil in a pan and put the dough into small pieces in the oil

Make pakodas like this and allow them to become golden brown

Remove from the fire and serve as evening snack.



Note: Like this you can prepare 'keerai' (green) bakoda, cabbage bakoda

etc., by adding them with the dough.

Ingredients:

1 1/4 rice flour

1 channa dal flour

200 gm ground nuts

2 sp. Red chilly powder

½ sp Garam Masala powder

1 pinch baking soda

1 so. Ghee

Salt

Oil to fry

Method:

Mix all the ingredients in a bowl and add peeled ground nuts.

Add water and let the flour coat the nuts.

The dough must be thick.

Heat oil in a pan and put the dough into small pieces in the oil

Make Mozhuna kadalai/Coated ground nutslike this and allow them to become

golden brown.

Remove from the fire and serve as evening snack.

Ingredients:

1 Rice flour

1 channa dal flour

1 inch ginger

Curry leaves

Salt

Oil to fry

1 Tab. sp ghee to mix with the dough


Method:


Mix all the ingredients in a bowl and mix well by adding water.

The dough must be some what soft.

Heat oil in a pan and put the dough into small pieces in the oil

Make pakodas as usual. And allow them to become golden brown

Remove from the fire and serve as evening snack.

Generally in South Indian Marriages they serve this ‘Medhu Bakoda’ with “kasi

halwa” as evening snack.

Ingredients:

100 gms Sago

4 - 5 green chilies

1/2 sp red chilly powder

1 onion

1/2 cup thick butter

Salt

Oil to fry

Method:

Soak sago in thick butter milk for 2 hours.

Cut onion, green chilies and add them with soaked sago and mix well.

Add salt and red chilly powder and mix well.

Heat oil and make bakodas

Serve hot.

Ingredients:

100 gms Vermicelli

1/2 cup rice flour

4 - 5 green chilly

½ sp Red chilly powder

Salt

Onion optional

Oil to fry

Method:

Soak vermicelli for 15 to 20 minutes.

Add rice flour, salt, red chilly powder and cut green chilies with that

Make bakodas out of the dough.

Serve hot.

Ingredients:

100 gms Thick Aval/ Poha

1/2 cup Chopped onion

4 - 5 green chilly

Salt

Onion optional

Oil to fry

Method:

Wash well and soak Aval for 15 to 20 minutes.

Add chopped onions, salt and cut green chilies with that.

Make bakodas out of the dough.

Serve hot.

Ingredients:

Take 1 cup cooked rice

1/2 cup channa dal flour

1 onion (chopped)

2 - 4 green chilies

salt.

Oil to fry

Method:

Mix them all in a bowl and make a thick dough

Heat oil in a pan and make bakodas out of the dough.

Serve hot.

OR

Take 1 cup cooked rice

1 sp Maida

2 - 4 sp rava

1 onion (chopped)

Green chilies or red chilly powder (as per your taste)

Asafetida powder

½ ginger chopped


salt

Oil to fry

Method:

Mix them all and make a thick batter.

Heat oil and make bakodas.

Serve hot.

Ingredients:

2 Cups Rice

1 Cup Channa dal

2 sp Thur dal

10 - 12 Red chilly

A pinch baking soda

1 Tab sp Ghee / butter

Salt

Oil to fry

Method:

Put all the ingredients in a container and grind them by giving it to a 'Flour mill'

After grinding, put salt, baking soda and ghee / butter. Mix well.

Then add water and mix well and make a thick batter

Put it in the 'nada bakoda maker' and make ribbon bakodas in hot oil.

Turn it once or twice when it is in the oil.

Remove it from the oil when it becomes golden brown.

This will be very crispy and you can keep this for many days.

Ingredients:

2 Rice flour

1 1/2 Channa dal flour

2 sp ghee to mix with the dough

A pinch baking soda

1 1/2 Red chilly powder

Salt

Oil to fry

Method:

Put all the dough in a bowl and put salt, baking soda and ghee. Mix well.

Then add water and mix well & make a thick batter

Put it in the 'nada bakoda maker' and make ribbon bakodas in hot oil.

Turn it once or twice when it is in the oil.

Remove it from the oil when it becomes golden brown.

This will be very crispy and you can keep this for many days.