Ingredients:

Corn meal – 1/2 cup(coarsely ground corn)
Corn flour – 1/4 cup
Salt
Baking soda – 1/4 spoon
Ghee/Dalda/ Clarified butter/Vanaspathi – few spoons
Mint paste 2-3 spoons
Ginger paste 2 spoons
Garlic paste 2 spoons
Fennel seeds – toasted and powdered 2 spoons
Curry leaves 1 cup
Green chilies 8 thinly sliced into sticks
Onion 4 large thinly sliced
Oil for frying.

Method:

In a bowl, bring corn meal and corn flour togather. Mix them thoroughly.

In a small cup, add salt, baking soda and ghee/dalda. Mix them well….till they dissolve.

Now add this salt-soda-ghee mixture to the bowl of flour. Mix them thoroughly.

Further add, sliced onions, chilies, ginger-garlic-mint paste, curry leaves and fennel seeds powder. Dry mix them without adding any water.

Heat oil in deep-frying pan. Maintaint he stove over medium heat.

From the bowl, transfer handful of mixed flour to a plate. Sprinkle little water over it. Now without making any shape….drop them as ‘pakoda’ over hot oil. Drop few at a time. Fry till crisp and golden color.

Repeat the same for each batch.

Leave the fried pakodas over kitchen tissues for few minutes.

Serve warm with hot sauce and tomato or chili sauce as evenning snack or as an appetizer.