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Veg Moong Dal Bhajji

Course Appetizer, Snack
Cuisine Indian

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup Yellow Moong Dal
  • 1 tsp Red Chilli Powder
  • 1 Green Chilli
  • ½ inch Ginger
  • 1 Potato fine chopped
  • 1 Brinjal fine chopped
  • 1 Onion fine chopped
  • 1 Big Green Chilli fine chopped
  • Spinach fine chopped
  • 1 tsp Carom Seeds crushed
  • 1 tsp Fennel Seeds crushed
  • 2 tsp Coriander Seeds crushed
  • 1 tsp Coriander Seeds crushed
  • Salt

Instructions
 

  • In a bowl wash and soak yellow moong dal for minimum 4 hours.
  • Sieve the water from dal and put dal into a grinder.
  • Now add green chilli, red chilli powder and ginger.
  • Grind everything to make a thick paste of it.
  • In a big bowl add the paste of dal and whip for 2-3 minutes.
  • Now add carom seeds, crushed fennel seeds, crushed coriander seeds, cumin seeds.
  • Now add chopped veggies, salt and give it a good mix. 
  • Take a pan and heat oil on medium high flame and check with the help of a toothpick.
  • Drop small size pakodas in the oil and after a while reduce the flame to medium.
  • Turn occasionally till it becomes crisp from all the sides.

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Notes

Shilpi’s Quick Tricks
  • Don’t use water as the paste needs to be thick.
  • If you eat garlic then add garlic to the grinder too.
Keyword appetizer, bhajji, pakoda, snacks, vegetable pakoda
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