Groundnut’s Pakoda. Phalli Ki Pakodi. Peanuts Pakoda. Verkadalai Pakoda. Nilakkadalai Pakoda.

Ingredients:

Groundnuts/Peanuts – dry 1 bowl full
Chana flour – 1 fistful
Rice flour – 1 fistful
Salt
Baking soda – 1/4 spoon
Ghee/Dalda/ Clarified butter/Vanaspathi – few spoons
Ginger paste 2 spoons
Garlic paste 2 spoons
Corsiander seeds – toasted and powdered 2 spoons
Curry leaves – toasted & powdered – 1 spoon
Chili powder – 2 spoons
Oil for frying.

Method:

In a bowl, bring chana dal flour and rice 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, groundnuts, ginger-garlic paste, chili, curry leaves and coriander seeds powder. Dry mix them first. Then sprinkle very little water to it. Maybe till the groundnuts are evenly coated with the masala.

Heat oil in shallow/deep frying pan. Drop few at a time. Fry till crisp and golden to reddish-brown color.

Repeat the same for each batch.

Leave the fried pakodas over kitchen tissues for few minutes.

Serve warm as an appetizer/ T.V time snack.