DEEPAVALI DELICACIES

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Vegetable bonda
Vegetables-Potato,Beans, Carrots,green peas,Beet Root(if preferred)
Steam the vegetables in a pressure cooker or a food steamer and mash them into a tight paste.Add grated onions, salt, red chilli powder. Knead the mixture tightly. Make this into uniform balls and keep aside
Mix gram flour and rice flour in the ratio 2 1/2 :1 , add salt, chili powder, asafoetida,. Add water and mix to a thick consistency. Roll the balls in this flour and deep fry until they are crisp.

Aaaloo paratha
Ingredients: 3 big potatoes, 3 cup wheat flour(small cups), Salt to taste, Green chillies, Pudina/mint leaves
For the stuff:
Just boil potatoes and make curry with salt, green chillies and Pudina/mint leaves(U can add chilli powder instead of green chillies also)
Paratha:
Make a loose batter of wheat flour with a pinch of salt and sambar powder. Now make small balls from this.Cave open this ball in the middle(It should be like a small cave that we do for kozhukkatai).Now add a liitle bit of gingley oil into this dough.Spread this oil well.Now stuff it with the curry u had made.Cover up this masala and then roll this back inrio ball with the stuff.Spread it across as u do for chappathi.Apply oil and make like chappathis.But this needs more oil than normal.This tastes well with tomato chutney/baingan masala.

Sambar powder
Whole red peppers - 1/4 kg
Coriander seeds - 1/4 kg
Toor Dal - 200 g
Gram dal - 200 g
whole black peppers - 25 g
asafoetida - a pinch.
or
whole red peppers - 10 cups, coriander seeds - 10 cups, toor dal - 1 cup, gram dal - 1 cup, black peppers - 1/4 cups, asafoetida powder - 1 tsp. Dry the above ingredients in sun and grind into a nice powder.