cabbage onion fritters / Onion Cabbage vadai

This is one of the easiest and the tastiest snack that can be made and had on a rainy day. Just don't mind the oil. You WILL have to fry this snack, but it does not take too much of oil.

Ingredients:

sliced cabbage: 1 cup
Sliced Onions: 1 cup
Besan: 3 tbsp
Rice flour: 4 tbsp [The more crispier You want, the more rice flour u add]
Red chilly powder: 1/2 tbsp [adjust according to your spice levels]
Ajwain: 1 tsp [completely optional: It helps in digestion though]
Salt: to taste
Oil: to fry

Method:

1. Mix everything[except oil] together with very little water. The veggies and the flour should bind very well.
2. Fry small vadai sized portions in oil.
3. Enjoy with green chutney or any other chutney of your choice on a rainy day.

You can make these on non-rainy days too. But they taste extra tasty on rainy days.

Potato Fry

I call potato as " the Miracle vegetable". I was not very fond of potatos until I started cooking. To cook potato is the easiest task in kitchen, next to making hot water!

Ingredients:
Potato - 1 [clean, remove skin, cut it into cubes]
Chopped Onions - 1 no.
Mustard - 1 tsp
Urad dal - 1/2 tbsp
cumin - 1 tsp
Chilly powder / mommy's sambar powder - 1/2 to 3/4 tbsp [ depends on how spicy u need it]
garam masala - 1 tsp [ optional ]
Salt - as needed.
Oil - 2 tbsp

Method:
1. Oil in a big wide pan.
2. Cumin and urad dal in.
3. Let mustard splutter.
4. Saute Onions with a little salt. [fastens the procedure].
5. Chilly powder in.
6. Diced potatoes in.
7. Sprinkle salt. [ & garam masals if using]
8. Stir everything together.
9. Close the pan with a lid. You want the potatoes to be cooked in the steam. so no water.

Easy Potato fry is ready to go with your sambar rice or lemon rice or Tamarind Rice or the undisputed curd rice.

Much more easier version is coming soon!!