Name: Mowgli Onion Bhajis
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: Makes 10–12 bhajis
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: ¼ tsp bicarbonate of soda/baking soda; 200 g/7 oz/1⅔ cups gram/chickpea flour; vegetable oil, for deep frying; 4 white onions, sliced into 1 cm/½ inch rings; 1 tsp ajwain seeds; ½ tsp ground cumin; 2 tbsp rice flour; ½ tsp ground coriander; 2 tbsp finely chopped fresh coriander/cilantro; ¼ tsp ground turmeric; 2 garlic cloves, grated; 2 green chillies, deseeded and finely chopped; 1 tsp salt; 1 tsp freshly ground black pepper

Preparation info

Makes
10–12
bhajis

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
35 min

Appears in

Mowgli Street Food

By Nisha Katona

Published 2018

About

These hot, flavourful treats take minutes to make and all they need is a starter onion... and we all have a starter onion lurking somewhere. Please also buy yourself a big bag of gram flour and forever change your snack life. This is a flour made of ground chickpeas/garbanzo beans, which makes it protein rich and gluten free. It can be used to make bhajis, deep-fried dumplings and pancakes – in fact wherever you have used flour in savoury dishes, just give gram flour a go. It feels heavier