When its rainy or cold outside, we loved to have some deep fried fritters with a cup of hot tea for our snacks, we had a rainy weekend here, so myself and my hubby were searching something as deep fried fritters for our snacks.. Saturday i picked two cauliflowers with their young leaves,back home i cleaned those leaves and arranged them in fridge thinking to make out something instead of throwing them..I can definitely say that certain events pull us to think more than our creativity and Nithu's recent event was one among those event which brings out our capacity of creating new dishes beyond the usual..Coming to these pakodas, i finally decided to make out pakodas with those tender cauliflower leaves with besan flour and rice flour without onions, these leaves pakodas turned out prefectly and we enjoyed having this crispies for our snacks with a cup of hot tea...
2cups Cauliflower leaves (chopped)
1cup Rice flour
3/4cup Gram flour
1tbsp Fennel seeds (crushed)
1/2tsp Baking soda
1tsp Garam masala powder
1tsp Ginger (crushed)
4nos Garlic cloves (crushed)
Salt
Oil for deep frying
In a mixing bowl, add the chopped cauliflower leaves, crushed fennel seeds, baking soda, garam masala powder, crushed ginger, crushed garlic cloves, rice flour and gram flour with salt, springle some water and turn them as stiff batter( take care not to add more water, else the pakodas will turn soggy)..
Heat the oil for deep frying, take enough pakoda batter, springle them to the hot oil, fry them in small batches until they turn golden brown, drain the excess of oil with a paper towel..
Enjoy hot with a cup of tea..
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