Millet Flour Onion Pakoda Recipe-Millet Snacks Recipes

• Mixed millet flour – 1/3 cup
• Gram flour – 1/4 cup
• Rice flour – 1 tbsp
• Big onion – 2 nos ( medium )
• Red chilli powder – 1/2 tsp
• Hing/Asafetida – 2 pinches
• Finely chopped green chillies – 1 no
• Curry leaves – few
• Coriander leaves – few
• Mint leaves – few 
• Ginger – 1/2 inch piece
• Hot oil – 1 tbsp
• Ghee – 1/2 tsp ( I used frozen ghee)
• Water – Very little ( say 1.5 tbsp)
• Salt – as needed

Cooking oil – to deep fry

• Wash and slice big onions thinly.Wash and chop ginger,green chillies,mint,curry leaves,coriander leaves & set aside.

• In a wide bowl,take all the ingredients except cooking oil and ghee.Mix all the ingredients well without adding water.Onions will leave water while u mix.So mix everything together.

• Heat oil to deep fry.Take a tbsp of hot oil  and add to the flour.Add ghee.Mix well.Then sprinkle few drops of water and make a dough.

• Put a drop of batter & check the heat of oil.If  the batter comes up immediately,oil is ready.Reduce the flame to medium high & pinch in a portion of batter and drop in the oil in a sprinkled manner. Cook till onions turn golden brown.Remove in a tissue and enjoy eating hot with tea !

• Gram flour is used for binding and rice flour for crispiness.
• You can follow the above recipe and make pakodas with kambu maavu or thinai too.
• Hot oil is added to give crispy pakoda.Don’t skip it.Ghee is for softness.