Baked Masal Vadai

Ingredients:

Onion- 1 medium

Cilantro - some chopped

Curry Leaves -5 leaves chopped

Green Chilly- 1 chopped

Salt

Oil

To Grind:

Chana Dal - 1 cup

Fennel - 1teaspoon

Red chilly-3 nos

Garlic- 2 nos

Ginger - small piece

Method:

Preheat the oven at 400f.Cover the tray with aluminum foil or butter paper ,in which you bake.

Soak Chana dal for 3 -4 hours ,drain all water. Put all together in mixer and grind it coursly. Do not add water.

Transfer the dal mixture in bowl/plate. Add  Onion to salt from above list. Mix it well in hands.

Take small amount of mixture ,make it flat in between palm.

Arrange it in the tray.Top some cilantro leaves(Optional).  Drizzle it with half teaspoon of oil on each Vadai.

Keep it in oven ,bake it for 15 mins. After then, flip the vadais, drizzle some more oil and bake it for 15 mins.

Once you feel all the Vadais turn crisp, take it out.

Enjoy with cup of tea.

Linking this Recipe to Spicy treats sangeetha's event,Love2Bake

Low Calorie Broccoli & Tofu Bonda

 After diwali am posting  my first entry for Blog hop wednesday~Edition 2.Hope all of u enjoyed Diwali with friends and relatives :)Now coming to blog hop,Radhika's doing a great job,now she introduced new friends to us.Really interesting, thank u  radhika :). This week i paired with Vardhini of   "Zesty Palette"  .She's having a wonderful blog with various cuisine.Totally i confused what to cook!! Am not a tofu lover ,but i love low calorie foods.So suddenly i selected to cook,Low calorie healthy bonda. When I visit some other blogs, I wonder how this bondas would taste, but it is awesome!!Let's see the recipe now,

 

Ingredients:

1. Firm tofu-1/2 pack
2. Broccoli-2 cups(Finally chopped)
3. Green chilly -2 (Finally chopped)
4. Red chilly powder/Salt-to taste
5. Corinader powder-1/2 teaspoon
6. Cumin seeds-1/2 teaspoon
7. Turmeric powder-little

For batter:

Ingredients:

1. Besan flour-1/2 cup
2. Rice flour-1/4 cup
3. Chilly powder/Salt-to taste

Method:

• Remove out the  tofu from the pack.Take out all excess water.
• Place tofu on a plate and cover with one more plate and keep some weight on top and allow to drain all water for 30mins.
• After that,Scramble it with hands. 
• Chop the broccoli very finely.
• Now take a wider bowl,add all ingredients one by one and mix well.
• Make a small dumplings ,keep aside.
• Now dumplings are ready.

• For batter,take a bowl again,mix all ingredients and add little water for consistency.
• Make a semi thick batter.Batter shouldn't be very thin.
• Heat paniyaram pan,add little oil in it.Let oil get heat.
• Then,take one dumpling ,dip in to gram flour batter and place in paniyaram pan.

• Repeat the same for all dumplings,Close with the lid.
• After 1 min open the lid and flip the bondas with spoon Or tooth pick.
• Flip and cook,for 2-3 mins till all side gets golden color.
• If you like drop very little oil on top of each bondas before taking out.
• That's it,Hot and healthy bondas are ready to have :)
• Serve it with some spicy chutney or sauce. 

Linking the recipe to Radhika’s Blog hop Wednesday & Winter Carnivals.Do visit here to check out all yummy recipes.