Tanura's Cookbook: Onion Fritters

Preparation Time: 15 minutes

Cooking Time: 20 minutes

Servings: 2

Introduction: My monsoon evenings are incomplete without a cup of tea and a plate of onion fritters. Onion fritters are one of the most popular street-foods in India. They have different names, such as ‘Kanda Bhaji’, ‘Ulli Vada’, ‘Pyaj ke Pakode’, in different parts of India.

Onion fritters usually served with hot tea, fried green chilies, or ketchup. The main ingredients of this recipe are onions, gram flour, and oil. There are several variants of this mouth-watering recipe available.

You can make crispy onion fritters within a short period of time. Here is my recipe for onion fritters. Try this recipe and enjoy hot and crispy onion fritters at home.

Ingredients:

2 sliced onions

2 roughly chopped green chilies

3/4 cup of gram flour

1 teaspoon of rice flour

1 teaspoon of ajwain seeds

1½ teaspoons of turmeric powder

A pinch of baking soda

Salt, as required

Oil, for deep frying

Procedure:

Step 1: In a bowl, add sliced onions, chopped green chilies, ajwain seeds, turmeric powder, and salt. Add gram flour, rice flour, and baking soda to it. Mix well and keep it aside for 10 minutes.

Step 2: In a deep-bottomed pan, heat oil.

Note: To check whether oil is hot, add a pinch of the mixture to it. The mixture will float on oil if the oil is sufficiently hot.

Step 3: Add the mixture to oil in small portions. Fry the one side of fritters for about 2-3 minutes on medium flame. Turn fritters upside down and fry them for about 2-3 minutes on medium flame. This process helps fritters to cook from inside.

Step 4: Fry fritters on medium to high flame for about 4-7 minutes. In this step, you need to keep turning the sides of fritters using a slotted spoon. This process makes fritters golden-brown and crispy.