Taro Root Pakoda

Ingredients:

4 medium sized Taro Roots / Kesuvina Gadde / Beenu Kesavu

1/2 medium sized Onion

Small piece of Butter

1/2 tsp Red Chilly flakes

1/4 tsp Chilly powder

7-8 Curry leaves

3-4 Coriander leaves

2-3 tsp All Purpose Flour / Maida Hudi

Pinch of baking powder

Salt to taste

Oil

Recipe:

Peel the taro roots, wash them and grate them as shown in the picture below. Grate the onion and squeeze it properly to remove the water content. Chop coriander leaves, curry leaves into small pieces as shown in the picture below.

Mix all purpose flour and baking powder in a bowl and keep it aside.

Put grated taro roots, squeezed onion, butter in a vessel and mix them well. Add red chilly flakes, red chilly powder, chopped coriander leaves, curry leaves, salt, all purpose flour and mix them well.

Keep oil in a thick bottomed vessel and heat it. Take little amount of prepared batter, make thin vada shape and put it into oil. Fry both the sides of taro root pakoda until it turns golden in color. Serve hot along with tomato ketchup. This recipe is from vahrehvah. Thanks Sanjay for this recipe.

Akki Enne Rotti

Ingredients:

2.5 cups Rice flour/ Akki hudi

6-7 Green Chillies

Small piece of dry Coconut

1 medium sized Onion

4-5 Coriander leaves

10-15 Curry leaves

Pinch of Asafotida powder

1-1.5 cups Curd

Salt to taste

Oil

Recipe:

Chop coriander leaves, green chillies, curry leaves and onion into small pieces as shown in the picture below. Chop dry coconut into small pieces as shown in the picture below.

Add all these ingredients, salt, asafotida powder, rice flour in a vessel and mix them well. Add curd and mix. Add sufficient amount water and mix them well. Don't make the dough too thin.

Take one thick plastic sheet, put 1 tsp of oil and spread it over the sheet. Take little amount of dough and pat it over the sheet to a medium thin round. Make one small hole in the middle as shown in the picture below.

Keep oil in a thick bottomed vessel and heat it. Take each enne rotti and slowly drop it into oil. Fry both the sides of enne rotti for about 1 min.

Serve hot along with salted butter or any curry. The above mentioned ingredients will serve 18-20 Akki Enne Rottis.