It is always a difficult job to get the kids to eat healthy stuffs, especially greens! So this week, I have been posting dishes that include the healthy drumstick greens. With a drumstick tree in the backyard, I cook with these greens often but have not posted those recipes here.
Hence I chose Drumstick greens as the ingredient for Week 3 of the Mega Blogging Marathon #68 themed Cooking Carnival .This dish joins the list complied for recipes with drumstick leaves and I still have a few more recipe to add to the collection.
Most of us love fried snacks and kids surely love them. Last week I made this as an after school snack. Lil Dude who is usually not into drumstick greens,asked me what the green things on the snacks were and I told him it was coriander leaves. He believed it and ate it up without any complaints!
This vouches for how delicious the snack is and how easily we can mask the greens in something the kids love!!
I had a little bit left over from a bajji -bonda mix that I got a while ago. Even though I don’t use the mixes, they sometimes make life easier when you have unexpected guests.So the remaining contents of the pack went into making this snack.
I used:
Bajji- Bonda Readymix- 1/2 cup
Cleaned and picked Drumstick leaves- 1/2 cup packed
Oil to deep fry
- Take the readymix and drumstick greens in a bowl.
- Add water little by little and mix to a doughy consistency. You should be able to pinch off small portions out of it.
- Heat oil in a pan and once it is heats up, drop in small pieces of the dough into the pan and deep fry the fritters till golden brown.
- Drain and serve hot.
Note:
- As I always say, use tender leaves.
- You can use the regular ratio of rice flour and besan to make the pakoda along with red chili powder, salt.
Bon Appetit…
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That is a delicious crispy pakoda. Looks absolutely yum..
A crispy pakoda indeed! Loving all ideas of using drumstick greens, PJ
Crispy pakodas.. when we sneak in greens in the pakodas, no one say no.. 😉
Would love to enjoy these pakoras with some hot and spicy chutney..they look real crisp.
Wow, i want to munch some pakodas rite now, too crispy and droolworthy.
The pakodas look crispy and they must have been yummy enough to mask the greens' flavor for your kid to enjoy.
Oh god! I am craving for pakodas early in the morning. Looks so crunchy and delicious 🙂
Pakoda is crispy and must have tasted amazing. I never used bajji mix. Will have to get a pack next time
PJ I am coming over for bhajis and aslo for the leaves from your tree. Will hijack it.
Pakoras look very crispy. what is this bhaji mix?? could you share its ingredients?
Wow, najji with drum stick leaves, now that sounds delicious.
Pakodas with drumstick leaves look amazing!
Wow, yumm way to feed fuzzy kids drumstick leaves!! Looks delicious pj!!
This is awesome PJ..I wonder why I never thought of this…very cool..