Vegetable Pancake Batter

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup gramflour
• 1/2 cup rice flour
• 1 tbsp. plainflour
• 1 tbsp. semolina
• 1/2 tsp. baking soda.

Method:

• Grate and add veggies as desired, spinach, carrots, gourds, fenugreek greens, anything.
• To season add ground chillies, garlic, ginger, cumin, coriander, etc. 1 tbsp. oil.
• Proceed to make a medium batter, and spread as for dosas.

Moong Dal Pakora Batter

Ingredients:

• 1 cup green gram dal with skin
• 3 green chillies
• 1 tsp. grated ginger
• 1/2 tsp. crushed garlic
• salt to taste
• 1/4 cup chopped coriander
• 1/4 tsp. coarsely crushed coriander seeds
• 1/2 tsp. coarsely crushed cumin seeds
• 3-4 pinches baking soda
• 1 tbsp. hot oil.

Method:

• Soak dal for 2 hours,
• Grind to a paste with chillies, ginger, garlic, adding as little water as possible.
• Add all other ingredients just before making pakoras.

Appam Batter

Ingredients:

• 1-1/2 cups raw rice
• 1-1/2 cups parboiled rice
• 2-3 tbsp. urad dal.
• 1 cup coconut milk
• 1/2 tsp. soda bicarb
• 1 tsp salt

Method:

• Soak for 4 hours in water, wash well
• Grind to a fine thick paste, keep overnight.
• Morning add coconut milk, soda bicarb, and salt
• Beat well.
• The batter for Appam is ready
• Apply a little oil on a non-stick or heavy griddle.
• Pour a ladleful of batter on hot griddle.
• Hold handle and rotate and tilt griddle quickly such that its full base is covered with batter.
• Do not spread with spoon. A thin dosalike pancake must be the result.

Coating Batter For Fritters

Coating Batter For Fritters

Ingredients:

• 1 cup plainflour
• 1 tbsp. cornflour
• 1 tsbp. rice flour
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• ground ginger, garlic, chillies for taste.

Method:

• Mix all the ingredients
• Add enough water to make a batter which will coat the back of a spoon thinly when
• dipped.
• Dip chunks of cauliflower, babycorn, etc. which should have first been boiled to be tender
• but mushy.
• Chill the boiled veggies before frying.
• One may even fry thick rings of onion, capsicums, etc.

Coating Batter For Dipped Bhajias

Coating Batter For Dipped Bhajias

Ingredients:

• 1 cup gramflour
• 1 tbsp. rice flour
• 3/4 tsp. salt
• few ajwain seeds
• pinch of asafoetida
• 1/2 tsp. cumin powder
• 2-3 pinches baking soda
• 2 tsp. hot oil (after batter has be prepared).

Method:

• Mix together all the ingredients
• Make a batter which will coat the back of a spoon thickly, when dipped.
• One may add ground garlic, ginger, chillies, as desired.
• Dip chunks of paneer, or sliced capsicums, cucumbers, potato, onions, zuchinni, whole
• hot green chillies, boiled whole babycorns, etc.