Sweet corn-channa dal fritters
By: Harini Mukundhan
Published: Monday, March 10, 2014 - 10:04pm

Ingredients




To grind:
1 1/4 cup sweet corn kernels
1/4 cup gram dal(kadalai paruppu)
2 teaspoons black gram(urad dal) (optional)
3 green chillies
1" piece ginger
Salt
Other ingredients:
2 teaspoons corn flour
1 onion sliced thin
1/4 cup cilantro leaves
1/2 green bell pepper chopped fine

Preparation

1 Soak channa and urad dal in water for 30 minutes. 2 Drain and grind to a very coarse paste along with the ingredients mentioned in"to grind". 3 Now Mix all the other ingredients to the ground paste. 4 Heat oil for deep frying. 5 Once the oil is hot pinch small portions from the batter and drop in the oil carefully.Deep fry till golden from both sides and drain on a kitchen towel. 6 Serve hot with coffee or as side dish with rice.

About

A bowl of crunchy snacks definitely does a thing or two for many people.Hot pakoda or bajjis with tea is a blissful time indeed and one can never have enough recipes for these treats.So here I am sharing one more interesting pakoda/fritter recipe using sweet corn.Gram dal/channa dal/kadalai paruppu is much known for making crispy snack varieties and here I have used it instead of gram flour,as when coarsely ground gram dal gives a dish more crunch than gram flour would provide.It is such a simple recipe that you can put together even on a week day morning as side dish for any variety rice or make it is a lovely snack to nibble along with coffee.Which ever way you serve it,this will be a winner for sure :)