


Onion Flower Pakodas & Event Announcement
Onion Flower Pakoras AKA Vengaya Poo Pakoda For those who saw these beautiful flowers as a garnish on my Paella Primavera post, this time I decided to use them in pakodas – just like I had used Zucchini flowers for bajjis last summer when we had Zucchinis coming out our ears :). This beautiful purple flower resembles a mum and is as potent as its stalk (green onions) and its bulb which is the onion itself – I guess it takes a while for these plants to mature enough to put out flowers, since these are from the crop we planted last year. Hubby dear has been busy making me my veggie garden – my horrible allergies prevent me from being too active outdoors this time of year – and I am eternally grateful to have married this wonderful man who not only LOVES pottering around the garden, but has the greenest thumb Onion flower/Vengaya Poo Spring Onion stalk Method: For these pakoras, I used the simple, standard method of mixing equal proportions of besan (chickpea flour) and rice flour. Ass asafetida (just a pinch) some sambar powder/curry powder for spice and salt Wash these beauties well and dab dry with towel or wash before hand and allow to dry naturally Heat oil to fry Dip the flower into the batter and fry Drain excess oil from the pakoras with paper towels Serve hot by itself or with some ketchup Close up And now, I am happy to announce that my Blog is hosting the Bake Fest this month of May – This event is a brainchild of Vardhini...
Event Announcement
My blog is guest-hosting hosting Mharo Rajasthan’s blog event – Veggie/Fruit a Month and the star veggie on my blog is the much touted (by me thanks to Dr Oz) and supposedly one of the healthiest vegetable – The Sweet Potato – or La Patate Douce or Chakravelli Kazhangu, Camote etc – If you have not cooked with this wonder veggie hitherto, please, this is your chance to give them a shot – here are some of my sweet potato recipes – Thank you Priya for giving me this wonderful opportunity to showcase my most favorite veggie There are few rules of this event: · The chosen veggie or fruit has to be the STAR of the recipe. · It can be cooked in any way or can be in its raw form in the recipe. · It can be any course of the meal (appetizer/main course/side dish/dessert/beverage or breakfast/lunch/dinner/snack). · Recipe has to be strict vegetarian (eggs are allowed). This is simply to re-enforce the fact that we can eat veggies without any meat and also for all our vegetarian friends, who do not eat meat. · You HAVE to make new recipes and old archived posts are not allowed. This is just so that we try and make new fresh recipes · Please send in your entries before end of March 31, 2012. · Link your post to the original event post along with the event announcement for that month. · You can choose any kind of fruit/veggie that is featured. Feel free to mention the variety if you know. · Always try to buy and use locally grown veggie and fruits Please use linky below...