I made some onion Bhaji's up last weekend and mixed up the spices and covered the onions before adding rice flour and Gram flour, no water was used i let the mix sit for ten mins to allow the salt to draw moisture from the onions.
Doing this i found i didn't have the situation where the mix seemed to keep getting wetter, for me the mix seemed a bit more stable.
Good tip thanks. Normally I end up with more spices stuck to my hands than stuck to the onion strips.
wet your hands first, it will stop that.......honest :)
mickyp, that
I did double fry at 160, but they are Red Onions, i have found them to look look a bit darker, thanks for your comments and advice tho.
Red Onions, Thatill be it for sure. ;)
Some that you get, have the same effect as beetroot.
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Thats a really good tip as mine get more gloopy towards the end of the batch
Thanks
How its done in a BIR kitchen
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Bucket of semi dry onion bhaji mix
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Chef getting in the way
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Into the hot vegetable oil
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Deep Frying
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Not quite fully cooked
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Sample, Yes Please, Yum. ;D
BIR Onion Bhaji is the one item that is so easy peasy to cook at home.
cheers Chewy
What should the ratio be between gram flour and onion, by weight please? Spices, etc I can probably eyeball, but it seems to me the key to success will be getting the basic proportions right.
Quote from: Donald Brasco on May 13, 2019, 01:22 PM
What should the ratio be between gram flour and onion, by weight please? Spices, etc I can probably eyeball, but it seems to me the key to success will be getting the basic proportions right.
Do you know that is so anoying, whenever i look at video's of restaurants making onion bhaji's its all about buckets and chucking stuff in.
For 500g of onions i have been using 6/7 TBL spoons of Gram and 2/3 of rice flour.
now legging it incase CT comes back :)
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Easily annoyed and a bit odd ;D ;D :o
DB
Yet another freeform BIR recipe
If your new to making Bhajis
Just start off with 4 medium sliced onions (about 600gms)
200gms of Gram flour (Besan)
I did a full run through on this in 2015, but I can
Sometimes you see recipe's that say eggs before flour, some eggs after the flour, i expect we have all seen videos where the ingredients are all poured in and then mixed with the fingertips, how does that work? getting the mix even, i sieve the flour on and shuffle the onions about to try and get an even coating, when i see the flour just dumped in and mixed it makes me wonder if i am wasting my time, any thoughts on this?