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Chennai Special Onion Pakoda - Vengaya Pakoda Hotel Style Recipe- Perfect Tea Time Snack Recipe

Onion Pakoda is one of the popular snack recipe of Tamilnadu. It tastes well when bought from any local tea shop when compared to famous snack shops. Here they use spices and onions in large amounts which enhances the flavor of pakodas. Crispy spicy onion pakoda is the perfect tea time snack and it also goes well with any lunch recipe especially sambar rice and puliyodharai.



Ingredients needed to make Onion Pakoda

Onions - 4
Gram Flour / kadalaimaavu- 2 cups
Rice Flour - 2 tbsp
Ghee - 1 tsp.
Fennel seeds / Sombu - 1 tsp.
A pinch of baking soda
A pinch of Asafoetida
Red Chilli powder -1 tsp
Coriander powder -1/2 tsp
Turmeric powder -1/4 tsp
Salt to taste
Oil for deep frying.

Method for making Onion Pakoda


  1. Slice the onions into thin slices and then take this in a wide bowl.
  2. Add salt and mix with the onions so that they release water. Then add a pinch of baking soda and a drop of ghee and mix well.
  3. Next add the gram flour, rice flour, and all the remaining ingredients and mix well.
  4. Sprinkle little water and mix well. Now the batter for pakoda is ready.Add little hot oil and mix well.
  5. Heat oil in a kadai and drop the batter in clusters like pakoda.
  6. Fry them till it becomes golden brown on all sides. 


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