Vazhakai Bajji – வாழைக்காய் பஜ்ஜி
Ingredients
- Big Plantain – 1
- Gram flour – 250g
- Rice flour – 50g
- Corn flour – 50g
- Ginger – 1
- Garlic cloves – 5 to 6
- Fennel seeds – 1 tsp
- Asafoetida – A pinch
- Lemon – 1
- salt – Required
- oil – Required
How to Prepare
Total Preparation Time: 20-30 minutes
- Wash and Peel the skin of plantain and cut them into two halves vertically and slice like a thin layer, and keep aside
- Grind the ginger, garlic and add water grind them well with fennel seeds like a thick smooth paste and keep aside
- Take a bowl, add gram flour, rice flour, corn flour asafoetida, ginger garlic paste, salt and 200ml water
- Mix it well like a smooth batter with thick liquid consistency not too think or too thin
- Add sliced plantain into the batter and allow them to marinate for 10 minutes
- Take a hard bottomed vessel, add 300 ml oil and heats up
- After that take out a plantain and again dip into the batter and coat again
- Now gently put prepared bajji into the oil
- Fry them it become crispy, golden brown on both sides then move these vadas into a napkin to avoid excess oil
- Now the healthy Vazhakai bhajji is ready for serve