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Pakoda Kurma
Ingredients :
For kurma :
Onions -- 1
Tomatoes -- 2
Grated coconut -- 2 cups
Fried gram -- ½ cup
Green chillies – 7 or 8
Ginger -- 1 inch piece
Garlic -- 8 cloves
Fresh coriander leaves -- a few leaves
Cloves -- 2
Cinnamon -- 1 inch
Coriander seeds -- ½ tsp
Cumin seeds -- ½ tsp
Oil -- 3 tsp
Ghee -- 1 tsp (to fry)
For pakoda:
Oil -- 3 cups (to fry)
Bengal gram – 3 cups
Sambhar onions – 1 cup(finely chopped )
Green chillies – 6
Garlic -- 3 cloves
Cumin seeds -- 1tsp
Coriander leaves - a few
Method :
Soak the Bengal gram in water for 1 hour. Drain and grind to a paste along with garlic, cuminseeds and chillies using very little
In the mean time , heat 1 tsp of oil and 1 tsp of ghee in a pan and add all the ingredients except coriander leaves , onions and tomatoes given above for kurma preparation. Stir –fry the ingredients for 3 or 4 mins in a slow flame. Allow it to cool and grind to a smooth paste and keep it aside.
Now heat 2 tsp of oil in a kadai and add chopped onions and tomatoes one by one and stir-fry for a minute. Then add the paste , water and salt and bring to a boil for 10 minutes.
Finally stop the fire and add the pakodas to the kurma.
Garnish with chopped coriander leaves and serve hot with rice.

