Starters and Snacks
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Tipsy Chicken with Beer
This is the definitive Indian biscuit. Countless recipes have all sorts of different ingredients but they all contain semolina and plain flour. Many decades ago, women would prepare their biscuit dough at home and take it to a communal oven or bakery for the baker to bake. The cooked biscuits would then be delivered back to them.
At the crack of dawn in India’s railway stations men and women armed with eggs and frying pans are to be found preparing these omelettes outside carriage windows.
North Indian appetisers or snacks, pakoras are batter-fried vegetables or fish. The batter is usually made of chickpea flour known as besan that’s mixed with water and a few select spices such as coriander and chilli.
Kela Chip. Across the Cochin region in Southern India, roadside vendors deep-fry thousands of banana slices in large black vessels filled with coconut oil. You’ll also find jackfruit, tapioca and yam chips. Often the bananas are cut into chunks, fried, dipped in jaggery or sugar syrup, then dried and sold as sweets. 
Samosas are either stuffed with minced meat or potatoes which is the more popular of the two. They do take time to prepare with several stages involved so if you are planning to make some for a special event, they can be filled and shaped the night before, covered and placed in a refrigerator, then baked on the day
North Indian appetizers or snacks, Pakoras are batter fried vegetables or fish. The batter is usually made of gram flour or besan mixed with water and a few select spices such as coriander and chilli.
Tapioca is an important product of the American plant cassava, but the main producers are now in Asia and Africa. Tapioca is usually used for making milk puddings in the West, but in South India it is found in various savoury preparations, such as these spicy patties of tapioca pearls and potato.
My mother used to make this when we couldn’t be bothered to go shopping. It’s one way of using ingredients in the store cupboard and makes a change from eggs and soldiers in the morning.
A quick and to easy to prepare dish. Tasty and very nice for lunch or supper. This recipe can be made several hours before you plan to eat it, and is easy to heat up in the microwave.
Aloo Bondas are a streetfood from Mumbai (Bombay), sold around beaches and in fast-food restaurants. However, my mother has always made them at home. Batata vadas or Aloo bondas are the Southern and Western Indian versions of the North’s samosas, but they are made with gram flour (besan) rather than wheat flour.
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