Cauliflower Whole Wheat Fritters/Gobi Atta Pakora

Winter evenings are so chilled here, obviously after a long day work, everyone at home love to have some crispy fritters. Fritters makes everyone happy, and needless to say kids love to munching hot pakoras for their snacks. Hence i prepared this cauliflower pakodas aka bajjis with a combination of wheat flour and gram flour. Adding wheat flour may sounds completely different from the usual way of dishing out these fritters. But trust me wheat flour works awesome for making puffy and dangerously delicious fritters as well.

Mini Vegetable Cheese Poppers

Kids are great fans of deep fried fritters, though being a health nut mom, am trying to keep ourselves away from deep frying. However deep fried fritters once a while, makes everyone happy at home. Though i usually goes for baked version, my younger one was asking for some cheesy balls since a while. Obviously i planned for a simple, yet dangerously addictive mixed vegetable and cheese poppers for our weekend snacks. These mini vegetables loaded cheese poppers are extremely addictive, easy to make and one of the best way to feed vegetables to the kids. I went for a lovely medley of grated vegetables, bread crumbs and mashed potato which i simply spiced with garam masala.

Mint Sweet Corn Balls/Pudhina Sweet Corn Kola Urundai

Kola urundai, this deep fried balls are usually prepared with minced meat, but am trying to replicate those meat loaded balls with different vegetables. I have already tried couple of versions of this popular meat loaded kola urundais. Since these deep fried balls are my kid's favourite, i dont forget to make them once a while eventhough am keeping myself away from deepfrying. I have created few of my own kola urundais with varieties of vegetables and ingredients as these balls are just prefect to feed kids easily with vegetables. Though these balls are usually deep fried even you can prepare them as no deep fried balls just by cooking them through paniyaram pan.
Here comes few of own versions of Kola urundais:
1)Soya Chunks Kola Urundai
2)No deep fry Chickpeas kola urundai
3)Broccoli Kola urundai
4)Soya Kheema Cashew Nut Kola Urundai
5)Mushroom Spinach Kola urundai
6)Egg Kola Urundai

Rajma Cheese Cigar Rolls/Cheese Kidney Beans Cigar Rolls

While watching a movie or a Tv show, we always look for something crispy, savory and filling to munch. Obviously my mind will always think about adding some interesting ingredients easily in those munchies.I always love to add beans in most of my dishes, yes beans are rich in proteins, i have some picky eaters who doesnt even touch beans aka legumes in their meal. Hence i love to add beans in most of my dishes and mask them with other ingredients to feed them easily. One among those trials is this cheese loaded kidney beans cigar rolls. The stuffing of this cigar rolls is definitely an interesting one. None noticed the addition of Kidney beans as they mashed nicely and mixed with mashed potatoes and spices. Everyone at home enjoyed thoroughly these crispy fried beauties.
Sending this to Srivalli's Kid's Delight event, guest hosted by Ritu themed on Movie Time Munchies.

Sanna Pakora/Sindhi Onion Pakoras

Indian cuisine have varieties of pakoras aka crispy deep fried fritters, i have prepared couple of pakoras though i have few to make at home. Finally here is one among those pakoras i have bookmarked few months back from Gayathri's Space is this ultimate crispy double fried onion pakoras. Loaded with onions and chopped coriander leaves, these fritters are seriously addictive to  munch with a cup of tea or coffee for your evening snacks. This double fried Sindhi style chickpea flour pakoras are very easy to make. With loads of chopped onions and finely chopped coriander, these pakoras will definitely satisfy your crave for deep fried beauties.

Cauliflower Manchurian/Gobi Manchurian

Though i have already posted varieties of Indo chinese manchurians, few dishes are yet to be posted in my space. I know its not normal for a food blogger like me, but its not too late to post those dishes na. One among those dishes i havent posted yet is this well known and quite a popular Indo chinese restaurant style cauliflower manchurian. Eventhough i have already prepared this delicious gobi manchurians at home for many occasions, i have completely forgotten about to post here.

Gluten Free Broccoli & Onion Pakoras

Though i keep myself away from deep frying, weather in Paris makes us to crave sometimes for deep fried fritters. Obviously once a while i dish out some crispy fried beauties either for our snacks or else for starter. Broccoli, this antioxidant rich vegetable is definitely a must in my cooking, i dont forget to add them often in my dishes, though kids are not big fan of this vegetables. Needless to say, i have to think twice to make dishes with broccoli florets. Anything fried is definitely kid's favourite, hence i prepared this fantastic pakoras out of them, as this pakoras are loaded with broccoli and onions.

Black-eyed Peas Fritters/Karamani Pakoda

Black eyed peas is becoming one of my favourite ingredient after Urad dal for making fritters or vadas. After trying my hands with black eyed peas vadas, i couldnt stop myself frying out some pakodas with them.They came out extremely super crispy and prefect to munch with some tea for snacks. However these cute crispy balls was a big hit among my kids, obviously they enjoyed munching them with their favourite sauce while i had this pakodas as side dish for some hot piping rasam rice. Yes you can even serve these cuties as side dish for your rice dish. As much as like usual gram flour based pakodas, these fritters came out extremely crispy, but all you need is to soak and peel the skin of black-eyed peas.

Gluten free Mini Tofu Fingers/Fried Tofu Fingers

Am trying to inculde tofu quite often in our meal, kids love it as much as like paneer. Actually tofu is replacing very much paneer in my cooking. One of my recent trial with tofu is this simple and very easy fried fingers. Yes you can make some fantastic starter with extra firm tofu. Simply flavoured with any sort of spices, tofu can be cooked as many delicious dishes. However we are great fan of this fried tofu fingers. Since tofu doesnt have any flavor, if you are making this ultimate Vegan and gluten free tofu fingers dont ever hesitate a second to flavor them with your favourite spices. Actually i went with simple garam masala flavoured tofu fingers as we love masala flavor in tofu.

Buñuelos Mexicanos/Mexican Buñuelos

Buñuelos Mexicanos is a popular fritters prepared during Christmas and New year's day. Though Bunuelos do exists as round balls, this flat shaped fritters are a sort of street foods in Mexico served along with hot atole and tamales to keep warm during their festive shopping. These Buñuelos are  light, crispy and round disc once deepfried are sprinkled with cinnamon-sugar or else served with piloncillo syrup. These bunuelos is definitely a very easy breezy fritters to prepare with less efforts. If you love to explore different fritters from Mexico, you should definitely look at this incredible Mexican  Buñuelos.

French Green Lentils Fritters/Le Puy Green Lentils Pakodas

French Green Lentils aka Le Puy Green Lentils are quite popular in France, as much as like our Indian lentils, this lentils are extremely nutritious. You can dish out many delicious dishes out of this lentils and i dont forget to get a packet whenever i go to our nearby super market. Usually prepared as soups or accompaniments or in salads, this puy lentils are extremely delicious and very versatile. I have been trying some Indian dishes out of this lentils and its works prefectly awesome. As like every lentils, this Le puy lentils calls for soaking time, but trust me you doesnt need to soak them for overnite. Just soaking for two hours is quite enough to dish out a healthy dish with this lentils.

Chilli Babycorn/Dry Chilli Babycorn

The weather is getting too chilled since few days and we are waiting for snow fall now. Obviously our tastebuds asks for deep fried foods or else for spicy foods. Since my lil one asked for chinese foods for his sunday lunch, i ended up in making a quick sunday special lunch with fried rice and chilly babycorn.Though this kind of cuisine is quite available in roadside hotels in India, its quite a hard task for us to get this kind of dishes here. If we crave for some Indo chinese foods,we dont have any option other than cooking at home.As i told earlier, last weekend i prepared a chicken fried rice, to serve along with this fried rice i quickly prepared this dry yet an excellent side dish with babycorns. Quick to make with simple ingredients, this chilli babycorn will definitely please anyone's tastebuds. Give a try to this dish, am sure you will definitely prepare this dish quite often.

Keerai Masal Vadai/Amaranth Leaves, Channadal Vadai

Keerai vadai, the word itself makes my mouth watery, i just love hot masal vadas with hot tea while the weather is down. My kids are almost like me, we are foodie and we just love anything deep fried, though i try to keep myself away from it. My kids asks often crispy vadas or bajjis for their evening snacks especially while its raining or chilled. My today's recipe goes for Amaranth leaves aka siru keerai, this greens are rich in vitamins and they are very healthy obviously you can dish out many different dishes from this incredible greens.

Spicy Wheat Diamond Cuts/Sesame Seeds and Wheat Diamond Cuts

Am an ardent fan of deep fried snacks but now am keeping myself away from it. But kids just love crispy fritters, obviously we cant say no to them though they have rarely deep fried snacks. When my lil one asked for a spicy snacks, i couldnt say no to him, and prepared this wheat flour based diamond cuts with loads of sesame seeds and kasuri methi. Usually we make diamond cuts with maida or all purpose flour, my today's post of this diamond cuts calls for whole wheat flour, yes i deduced the quantity of maida and went for whole wheat flour, semolina to make them more healthy and crunchy. Sesame seeds and kasuri methi added to the dough makes this diamond cuts very flavourful and absolutely nutty.

Beguni - Bengali Eggplant Fritters

Beguni aka Bengali eggplant fritters makes an excellent evening snacks, the traditional way of enjoying this beguni is to serve this fritters with puffed rice and green chillies.The dish may be prepared by coating eggplant with besan paste and then frying the pieces in oil.The eggplant is usually cut lengthwise and are dipped in a batter of Bengal gram flour with salt and turmeric, and deep-fried in mustard oil. Sometimes a small amount of poppy seeds is added to the batter. Some people prefer adding a small amount of baking powder to the batter to make it more crunchy. Beguni is an extremely popular street food in the cities. It is normally an evening snack in Bengali households and is a very common component of Iftar in Bangladesh during the month of Ramadan of the Islamic calendar.

Kyethun Kyaw - Burmese Onion Fritters

They do exists varieties of fritters made simply with onions, one of my recent try is from Burmese cuisine. If you have noticed i have been posting fritters for this week's blogging marathon, after two delicious different fritters, today am sharing this incredible onion fritters aka Kyethun Kyaw which is quite essential to garnish Burmese traditional dish of Mohinga. These onion fritters are very easy to dish out and the flour mixture goes for this fritters is very interesting and easy as well. Actually four flours are used in making this fritter's batter. Rice flour, glutinous rice flour, self raising flour and chickpeas flour makes this dangerously addictive fritters. These fritters when served along with a chili dip makes an excellent evening snacks.

Bakwan Sayur - Indonesian Vegetable Fritters

This week is going to be a fritter's week, yes i picked bring on fritters as theme for this week's blogging marathon. Obviously for this week's three day's blogging is going to be full and full deep fried fritters that too from other countries. Its really very interesting to see fritters from countries sounds almost like our own Indian fritters. My today's recipe have few ressemblance with South Indian fritters. Bakwan Sayur is an Indonesian vegetable fritters i picked from the wiki link given by Srivalli. Bakwan sayur makes an excellent starter or snacks. You can make these crispy beauties with easily available ingredients and vegetables. Just carrots and cabbage is quite enough to make this crispy fritters.

Akara - Nigerian Fried Bean Cake

Akara is the most popular Nigerian bean cake prepared with black eyed peas. This fried cake are quite famous among the Nigerians as they can be consumed for breakfast or snacks. This cakes are dangerously addictive and you cant just stop with one.If you make this crispy fritters you wont  just stop yourself having them. As i told earlier Akara is made with soaked and deskinned black eyed peas blended to a puree and fried in oil with chopped onions and peppers. Most of the akaras are prepared either by blending onions and peppers together with the deskinned peas or else both chopped onions and peppers are added later to the blended puree too. I tried the second way and they came out simply fabulous.

Falafel

As per wiki,Falafel  is a deep-fried ball or patty made from ground chickpeas, fava beans, or both. Falafel is a traditional Middle Eastern food, commonly served in a pita, which acts as a pocket, or wrapped in a flatbread known as lafa; "falafel" also frequently refers to a wrapped sandwich that is prepared in this way. The falafel balls are topped with salads, pickled vegetables, hot sauce, and drizzled with tahini-based sauces. Falafel balls may also be eaten alone as a snack or served as part of a meze aka appetizers.Falafel is a common dish eaten throughout the Middle East. The fritters are now found around the world as a replacement for meat and as a form of street food.

Onion Pakora

When the weather is too chilled or rainy nothing can beat a cup of coffee or tea with a plate of hot and spicy pakoras. Needless to say the weather in Paris is really very worst and rainy since few days. However we keep ourself comforting by pampering with some deep fried crispies. Weekend went really very quick and the weather kept us indoor as it was raining whole weekend here. Obviously i couldnt stop myself making some hot pakoras with onions. Everyone at home love pakoras very much especially with onions. If i make onion pakoras even i wont keep myself away from them, i wont stop myself munching them, i cant control myself my tastebuds if i have a plate onion pakoras in front of me.