Tomato Bajji

Tomato bajji are famous at my husband's place and he remembers them a lot ,as he used to have them quite often when he was young. I gave  them a  try and they came out so delicious and yummy. I cannot bring back his Golden days (bcoz he is married to me LOL!!)…atleast I managed to bring the flavor of tomoto bhajji.

These are prepared with ripe round tomatoes dipped in besan batter and layered with onions, coriander leaves and roasted peanuts. 

Ingredients:

Red Round Tomatoes – 3 Medium

Besan – 1 cup

Baking Soda – ½ tsp

Salt As Required

Onion – 1

Coriander leaves – ½ cup

Chaat Masala – 1 tsp

Sev (optional) – 3 tsps

Lemon juice – 2tsps

Roasted Peanuts – 3 tsps

Red Chilli Powder – 1 tsp

Oil for Deep Frying

Preparation

• Wash the ripe round tomatoes and dry them.
• In a mixing bowl, add besan, baking soda, red chilli powder and salt.
• Add enough water to make thick batter.
• Heat oil on medium heat for deep frying.
• When oil gets hot, dip the tomatoes into batter and coat with thick besan batter.
• Slowly drop the coated tomato into the hot oil.
• Deep fry the tomato until it turns light golden color all over it.

• Remove bajji’s from heat.
• After it gets cooled cut the tomato bajji into halve.
• Take a wide serving plate
• Place the half bajji’s, layer each with chopped onions, chopped coriander leaves, salt, chilli powder, chaat powder, lemon juice.
• Lastly add sev and roasted peanuts.
• Serve immediately.

Sending this to My Legume Love Affair hosted by Dee originally started by The Well Seasoned Cook , Cooking with Whole foods - Tomato hosted by sanyukta originally started by Kiran and Fast Food not Fat Food  hosted by priya and Kid's Delight hosted by priya originally started by srivalli.