Maida Ponganalu – Ponganalu is a easy and tasty deep fried snack recipe made with three different flours, green chili, onion and curd. Serve with peanut chutney and tea/coffee.
Ponganalu is a traditional evening snack prepared in Andhra Pradesh. Generally left over dosa or idli batter is used in making these ponganalu.
Today I used maida ( all purpose flour), rava and rice flour. These are combined with onion, green chilly, plain yogurt (curd) and coriander leaves to form a thick dough. The dough is deep fried to golden brown.
Serve the maida ponganalu with peanut chutney. Though you can serve with any other chutney like carrot capsicum chutney, I think these tastes very good with peanut chutney.
Maida ponganalu with a cup of masala tea, is a perfect snack on a cold winter day.
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Step by Step Pictures on how to make Maida Ponganalu-
- Finely chop the onion, green chilly, coriander leaves and the curry leaves. Place them in a bowl.
- Add all purpose flour, rava, rice flour, curd and salt to the chopped ingredients.
- Mix all the ingredients.
- Now slowly add the water little at a time to get a slightly thick batter.
- Heat oil for deep frying.
- when the oil gets hot, put small droplets of the dough in the and oil.
- Fry the Ponganalu in medium flame, and cook till light brown on the outside.
- Serve hot with chutney of your choice.
- Enjoy the maida Ponganalu with a cup of tea or coffee.
Maida Ponganalu
Ingredients
- ¾ cup maida (all purpose flour )
- ¼ cup rava (semolina)
- ¼ cup rice flour
- 1 large onion, finely chopped
- 1 tabslepoon Coriander leaves
- 4 green chili, finely chopped
- ½ cup sour curd
- 8 curry leaves, chopped
- salt to taste
- water as needed to make a thick batter as shown in the pictures
Instructions
- Finely chop the onion, green chili, coriander leaves and the curry leaves. Place them in a bowl.
- Add all purpose flour, rava, rice flour, curd and necessary salt to the chopped ingredients. Mix well.
- Now slowly add the water little at a time to get a slightly thick batter.
- Heat oil for deep frying. when the oil gets hot, put small droplets of the dough in the and oil.
- Fry the Ponganalu in medium flame, and cook till light brown on the outside.
- Serve hot with chutney of your choice.
- Enjoy the maida Ponganalu with a cup of tea or coffee.
Amila Wickramarachchi
look so perfect and yummy!very cute looking snack!
Chitz
Perfectly made ones, looks damn inviting !
Priya Suresh
Very addictive,crispy ponganalu..tempts me a lot.