Vazhakkai Bhaji Recipe | Raw Banana Fritters | Vazhakkai Bhaji - Quick Tea Time Snack Recipe

Bhaji is one of the easiest and quickest tea time snack. Bhajis are the most common snack prepared instantly for unexpected guests at home. Mom often makes Bhajis for our snack time since my sister loves bhajis especially vazhakkai bhaji. And also these bhajis are easy and quick to make.
In my home town, vazhakkai bhaji is popular and you can find in most of the road side shops & Tea Shops during evening time. They serve Vazhakkai Bhaji with a Onion Masala and coconut chutney. I wanted to share this recipe along with onion masala but because of lighting problem I skipped it. May be I will share it later.

Winter evenings or Rainy days sure needs some hot and spicy snack that too the deep fried snack like Onion Pakora, Potato Bhaji, Vazhakkai Bhaji, Masal Vadai are most welcomed at home. I am not a fan of bhajis I only just taste one to check salt and spice. But V and kids like it a lot. So for them once in a while I make bhajis and other deep fried snack.

Vazhakkai bhaji should be crispy and puffy, it is different from my regular Potato bhaji & Milagi Bhaji measurement. I also added Chilli Garlic Chutney, that I posted a while back to the bhaji batter
and it turned out so flavorful spicy and tasty. You can also simply replace chilli paste with chilli powder and use garlic paste or garlic powder.

Vazhakkai Bhaji Recipe

Prep Time : 10 minutes | Cook Time : 15-20 minutes

Recipe Category : Snacks | Recipe Cuisine : Indian

Makes  10-12 bhajis

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Ingredients

1. Gram Flour/Besan/Kadalamaavu   4 tbsp
2. Rice Flour/Arisi Maavu   3 tbsp
3. Baking Soda   1/8 tsp
4. Chilli Garlic Chutney   1-1 1/2 tsp
5. Cumin seeds/Jeera  1/4 tsp
6. Hing  1/4 tsp
7. Salt  to taste
8. Water   as needed
9. Oil  as needed to deep fry

Method
Wash and wipe raw banana with paper towel,trim edges and slice thick skin and slice raw banana into thin slices(length wise).
Take a mixing bowl add gram flour, rice flour, hing, jeera, salt and mix well then add chilli garlic paste.

Mix everything well with water and make this to a little thick smooth batter.
The batter should be slightly thick, so that it coats well with the vazhakkai slice.
Heat oil in an medium high heat till it get really hot.

Dip individual slice of vazhakkai in to the batter and deep fry them in hot oil till it turns light golden brown on both sides.
then remove form the oil and drain them in a paper towel and serve hot with Coconut chutney or ketchup.