Kadamba bajji/ Mixed vegetable bajji is a delicious platter of puffy tea time snack that is served during evenings but much preferred by all during rainy season/ winter. We usually eat/make bajji with 1 or 2 veggies but this kadamba bajji is a platter of mixed veggies bajji in which you get to taste bajji with many veggies. I have used here veggies like carrot, capsicum, potato, onion and plaNtain but you could add bajji chili and eggplant. My mom usually makes this kadamba bajji at home so that everyone gets to eat their favorite veggie dipped in besan batter and fried to perfection. It is winter here and it there is a lot of downpour in many places so thought that this recipe will be ideal for the current scenario. I have earlier shared many snacks recipes like these:
- Air fryer onion pakora
- Air fryer fish pakora
- Kale pakora
- Palak pakora
- Onion pakora
- Gobi pakora
- Gobi 65
- Tindora pakoda
- Vegetable pakora
- Bitter gourd pakora
- Asparagus pakoda
- Vazhai poo bajji
- Plantain bajji
- Eggplant bajji
- Cashew pakoda
- 1. Mixed veggies – 2 cups (capsicum, vazhakkai/ plantain, carrot, potato and onion)
- 2. Besan/ kadalai maavu – 1 cup
- 3. Rice flour – ¼ cup
- 4. Red chilli powder – ½ tsp
- 5. Salt – to taste
- 6. Baking soda – ¼ tsp
- 7. Water – for making batter (3/4 to 1 cup)
- 8. Oil – for frying
- * 1 cup = 235 ml
- In a bowl add besan, rice flour, chili powder, baking soda and salt. Mix well, add water gradually to form a thick batter ( I used around ¾ cup water approx.).
- Wash, peel and slice the veggies thin. Heat oil in a frying pan. Dip each thin slices of veggies one by one in besan batter then drop the batter coated veggies one by one in preheated oil. Do not overcrowd the pan/ kadai. Fry it in medium flame and flip the bajji after it has puffed. When both sides are cooked/fried remove from oil and transfer it to a plate. Serve it hot with chutney and masala chai! Repeat the process till all the batter and veggies are complete.
How to make Kadamba bajji with step by step images
- In a bowl add besan, rice flour, chili powder, baking soda and salt. Mix well, add water gradually to form a thick batter( I used around ¾ cup water).
- Wash, peel and slice the veggies thin. Heat oil in a frying pan. Dip each thin slices of veggies one by one in besan batter. Coat it well.
- Drop the batter coated veggies one by one in preheated oil. Do not overcrowd the pan/ kadai. Fry it in medium flame.
- Fry the bajji in medium flame flip the bajji after it has puffed. When both sides are cooked/fried remove from oil and transfer it to a plate. Serve it hot with chutney and masala chai!