My husband travels to his client location once a week and prefers to take his favorite food Tomato Rice for his packed lunch. I had some cluster beans lying in the fridge and was thinking of making the usual cluster beans poriyal, but my taste buds said a big "No" to the poriyal. So I searched around for Cluster beans recipes on the internet and came across some Vada and Bajji varieties with kothavarangai as it is called in Tamil.I was not very keen on making a vada and came up with this pakoda recipe. This is just a slight variation to the mixed vegetable pakora that I usually prepare.
Ingredients:
1 lb - Cluster Beans
1 Onion (chopped)
3/4 cup Gram flour (besan)
1 tsp fine rava(Sooji)
2-3 Green chillies
1/2 inch Ginger piece(finely smashed)
1/2tsp - Red chilli powder
Salt to taste
Oil to fry
Method :
Wash and steam cook Cluster Beans.Chop green chillies and finely smash ginger with a morter and pestle, alternatively you can grate ginger. Chop the Cluster Beans into small pieces
Add gram flour and mix with Chopped Cluster Beans, Onion, green chillies, ginger and red chilli powder till the batter is of semi-solid consistency. Add salt to taste.Add water if required since the besan can be mixed in the water retained from the steamed beans itself.
Heat the oil in a deep pan.Now take the batter and drop in small portions into the oil. Cook on medium fire till the pakodas are of light brown color.
Makes a good evening snack with hot tea or serve as an appetizer for your lunch/dinner.
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