Dimple Pakodiyans!!! Noodle Pakodiiiiiis!!!!!

Pakodiiiiiiiiiis!!!!  Yummmmooooo!!!!   

whatever might have been the reason for me to pull this together when I had just 30 minutes to spare!!!!!       This is for my little princess!!!    My sweet little daughter is sick :(  Really sick!!!  Just got back from the doctor, who proclaimed that she was alright but with an ear infection!!   

Alas!!!  She was soooooo crestfallen!!!  She is one person in my family, actually one of the four (!) who has a robust appetite, loves, simply loves "good" food!!  I have a secret feeling that she hates falling sick as she is refrained from eating normal yummy food!   Now who wouldn't??!!!   So, I decided to treat her!  I was taking her to my friend R's house, for a dance session,  No people!!!  I am not going to have her dance!!!  LOL!!!  She is just going to sit out!  But, thought shall treat her to something before I took her!!  

The kids wanted Maggi!!!    Now, this one dish without me having to do anything, except boil a pot of water actually a cup of water per pack....gets 100 points....Bingo...everytime!!   

                                            I am sure my mother felt that way too when I was growing up!!!  Oh boy!!  Has Maggi been around really that long??!!!  I remember, when it first came out, it was Rs.2.00 per pack and was a rage!!!  My mother  always an enthusiastic shopper, would try all products that would get launched!!  And my dearest dad had a huge part in it!!  He used to work in a food research institute and they would get samples from all of the food industry to try their product, do shelf life studies, analyze, to find nutritive value and so on!!  Well...though he was a biochemist, he had a ton of friends who would pass on these products to him....and he would bring them home for us to try, even before it hit the market!!!  

                                               Now who doesn't like trying and devouring yummy food for free??!!!  hahahhah!!!  That was us!!  Mom would tirelessly try out different things out of the prepackaged products.....these yummy pakodis are the result of one such pursuits in her food experimentation of ready to eat foods!! 

                Here is my reproduction of the same to my family and you!!!  But how did this get its name??!!  you wonder??!!!  well!  Let us make the pakodis and talk about that while munching on them with tea shall we??!!!!  

Here goes it........

You will need....

A.  The Filler Mix:  1/4 yellow onion, minced; 1 Serrano pepper minced; 3 tbsp cilantro, chopped; 1 small carrot, peeled and grated; 

B.  The Star of the Pakoda filling:

1 packet of Maggi prepared with the Maggi bouillon,  according to the package

C.  Base Mix --  1 cup Chick pea flour/Besan; 3/4 tsp salt, 3/4 tsp baking soda; 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper powder; a scant 5 oz of room temperature water.

Add all the ingredients of the base into a bowl and whisk the mixture until nice and airy for about a minute or so!

Now... add the filler ingredients, and the star ingredient - the prepped noodles into the base mixture and mix well.  The mixture should be very chunky!!!  Like so.....

  

Meanwhile, heat a pan with canola oil.  Add a droplet of the pakodi batter.  If it floats up and sizzles, then the oil is ready for you!!  If the droplet burns, then it is too hot!  Move the pan away from the heat immediately and wait for couple minutes for the oil to cool down.  If the droplet sinks -- your oil needs to come up to temp.    That was frying 101 for you!!!

Use a tablespoon of the batter, drop it into the hot oil.  Do not overcrowd the pan.  My pan could easily fit 4-5 of these yummy morsels. 

 

Let it turn golden brown, and flip the pakodis and let them brown up on the other side also.  

Drain the pakodis on a platter lined with paper towel to drain off excess oil from those golden morsels!! 

Serve them with a chutney of your choice.  I went with the theme and served my pakodis with Maggi hot and sweet sauce!!   And......my daughter loved them....she gave me her signature thumbs up sign.....get well sooooooon sweetie!!!  Miss your little snippets of your day in your sing song voice around the house!!!

 Now, armed with a cup of Chai and a plate of Pakodis, would like to reflect the conversation that I had with Jay when I came up with the name for these .... at the dance...we were discussing Dimple Kapadia,...a famous actress from Bollywood, and munching on one of these, and somehow with the twist in the syllables the name was coined!!!!  Haahahhahahhaha!!!  Some girl friend humor!

Enjoyyyyyyyyy!!!!