HI, Currymonster
There are different methods for pre-cooking the onions before you mix them with the other ingredients and make the bahiji her are some of them :
Some recipes boil the onion slices for a short time
Others just fry the onion slices until they are wilted. Please do not brown them
Some just cut the raw onion into slices ?( no boiling or frying )
A very nice spice recipe for onion bhaji :
20g coriander seeds
20g black peppercorns
20g turmeric
20g dry fenugreek leaves
10g chillies
10g cumin seeds
only dry ?roast the cumin seeds for less than 2 minutes while you move the seeds all the time over high heat. Please leave until it is completely cool.
Add the ?rest of the spices and grind in a coffee grinder until fine.
Chickpea flour
eggs
yogurt
fresh green chillies
Salt...to taste
Method :
choose which kind of onions you want to use ( from above ).
Add egg or eggs? ,it depend upon how many onions you are going to use
Add yogurt? ? ? ? ? ............................................................................
Add spices ( from above ) and fresh chillies to your taste ,......................
Add salt
Add fresh coriander leaves if you like them in your bhaiji
Add chickpea flour? to make not very stiff dough
mix together ?and leave for some time so the onion can soak some of the liquids, and the flavor to develop.
make into shape and fry in hot oil
enjoy
thanks
ghanna
If you do like the raw taste of onions don't use the boiled? or the? fried? onions just use raw onions.
Try not to make the bahiji too? big as you don't want it to be raw (not cooked ) in the middle, if it did happen just cook them for another minute or two in the microwave oven .
If you do like them crisp fry them for a short period first until they are just yellow.Leave them to get cool and then re-fry them again until they are brown.
Some recipes use some cornflour with the chickpea flour they say it make the onion bahiji crisper.but i didnot try it my self.
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