When I made this dish, it took me back to the time I first had it.
It must have been more than 10 years back. Dad always used to take us for dinners often as he wanted to give a day off for Amma. Those days eating out was not so popular unlike now.
And we went to this Restaurant which had Revolving Towers and it was really fun. The central part of the Restaurant revolves and the other part of the restaurant does not. So it was fun looking at the people who were not seated at the revolving tables.
Finally, when we decided on our food, we ordered this starter which was really very tasty. If we still remember that restaurant, it is because of this dish.
Long after that, Dad always used to ask Mom to prepare that, but she never tried her hands on this recipe. After marriage, once I wanted to impress hubby dear with me culinary expertise (hehe) and experimented on some inspiration. (don't we all do it :))
The result was so good.
Not sure if that original dish was made this way, but my version of Onion Rings is something to eat.
I had once prepared it for Dad but Amma didn't get a chance to eat then. So I made it again on her Birthday and she loved it. And I was so happy that she liked it.
Here's the recipe for it.
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Ingredients
1 cup Maida (Refined Flour)
3 medium Onions
1/4 tsp Baking Soda
3 tbsp Curds for Butter Milk
Salt to taste
Cooking Oil for frying
Chilli Powder for taste
Instructions
Take the curds, beat it into a smooth paste, add salt. Mix it with 100 ml of water.
It should be of medium thickness consistency. Let it stay for 10 to 15 mins.
Cut Onions into rings, making sure you remove the stack in the middle. Shred into separate rings as shown in the picture.
Take Maida in a bowl. Add baking soda and chili powder.
Pour the buttermilk little by little, to get a uniform paste making sure there are no lumps. Then add all the buttermilk to get a medium consistency. The batter should not be so thick.
Heat oil in a pan. Once it's really hot, dip the onion rings in the batter and drop them into the oil.
Once they are fried well, remove them to a kitchen paper. You will have to remove them once they turn light golden in colour.
Serve it with a little chili powder sprinkled on the top.
The uniqueness of this is unlike other pakodas made with just Maida, this stays crunchy and crispy for a long time.
Recipe
Its Onion Rings!
Ingredients
- 1 cup All Purpose Flour / Maida
- 3 medium Onions
- 1/4 tsp Baking Soda
- 3 tbsp Curds for Butter Milk
- Salt to taste
- Cooking Oil for frying
- Chilli Powder for taste
Instructions
- Take the curds, beat it into a smooth paste, add salt. Mix it with 100 ml of water.
- It should be of medium thickness consistency. Let it stay for 10 to 15 mins.
- Cut Onions into rings, making sure you remove the stack in the middle. Shred into separate rings as shown in the picture.
- Take Maida in a bowl. Add baking soda and chili powder.
- Pour the buttermilk little by little, to get a uniform paste making sure there are no lumps. Then add all the buttermilk to get a medium consistency. The batter should not be so thick.
- Heat oil in a pan. Once it's really hot, dip the onion rings in the batter and drop them into the oil.
- Once they are fried well, remove them to a kitchen paper. You will have to remove them once they turn light golden in colour.
- Serve it with a little chili powder sprinkled on the top.
Padmaja says
They look so crisy and crunchy.I will definitely give it a go !!
Nandita says
Hi Tee!
Are you by any chance talking about the Ambassador hotel in Bombay? I've always heard about it, and seen it while we used to eat Rustom's icecream inbetween wafer biscuits and look up at the revolving structure- Don't know if it is still doing the rounds 😉
Cya around!
archana says
They are looking so nice and golden.I had only heard about this recipe.Would like to try it out. Thanks for this lovely recipe.
Asha says
OH! I love onion rings.Good looking snack here.I make it too,with very thick rings.Yummy Tee:))
Tee says
All right!!! i finally guessed something right...:)
Those onion rings look delicious!! i have never made these at home. The ones you get at restaurants here are so oily that I can't eat more than 2-3. but your recipe looks really good, will try it out, maybe today itself since its raining here...perfect weather!
Srivalli says
Hi Archana do try this and let me know.
Thanks for dropping by asha
Hi padmaja they are really cripy and crunchy, do give this a try. Will be a great hit with kids.
hi Nandita, thats fine. Btw I was referring to a restaurant in Madras. I think it goes by the same name.
Hi Tee Its raining at your place now. Must be lovely. Do try these out and enjoy.