Thursday, March 29, 2012

Black Eyed Peas Kebab



Ingredients
Black Eyed Peas/ Vellapayar: 1 cup
Onion: 1 small
Green chilli: 4
Garlic: 3 cloves
Ginger: ½ “piece
Coriander leaves: ¼ bunch
Gran Flour/ Besan: 1tbsp + for dusting
Corn flour: ½ tsp
Garam Masala: ½ tbsp.
Cumin Seeds: 1tsp
Pepper Powder: ½ tsp
Salt: needed
Oil: for deep frying
Method of Preparation
Soak the peas for 5 hours.
In a pressure cooker cook the peas by adding salt till done.
Drain the peas from the cooker, add garlic, ginger, green chilli, onion, coriander leaves, cumin seeds, garam masala.
Add all these to the blender and blend to a smooth paste.
Transfer this to a bowl, and add pepper powder, gram flour and corn flour to it. If needed add more salt.
Mix it well with hand.
In another bowl take some gram flour. Keep this aside.
Heat oil in a pan, take small balls from the above mix and shape to an oblong shape.
Roll this in the gram flour well and deep fry in oil.
Take this out when both sides are done well.
Drain it in a kitchen towel.
Serve hot with ketchup or any dip of your choice.



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27 comments:

Vimitha Durai said...

Nice kebabs. would make a good starter

Mélange said...

That's a unique kebaba faseela..am sure it will rock !

Hema said...

Blck eyed peas in kebab, that's new, very nicely done..

Anjali Bapna Shukla said...

I'm so impressed with these kebabs...of course a new, unique thought. :)

Reshmi said...

healthy new kebabs.. will buy vellapayar soon :)

Ambreen (Simply Sweet n Savory) said...

Sounds delicious, you're full of yummy recipes!

anjana said...

very innovative!! loved the idea of making kabab from cow peas.. looks delicious..
Anjana

Prema said...

Healthy and nutricious kebabs,luks yum...

hotpotcooking said...

kebab looks yum and healthy with black eyed bean

Rasi said...

very nutritous & tasty!

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nazarina said...

M,mmm! you make really good noshes! I have not had much luck with dosas, so B/M that post! The black- eyed pea is a thing of good luck in the south of U.S.A!

Teena said...

wow..What a healthy & tasty recipe!! I've got all the ingredients in stock so i'm gonna make this today itself :)

Suja Manoj said...

Good one,healthy and yummy kebab

Achu's Amma's Kitchen said...

healthy awesome kebab...filling satrter..

Kit @ i-lostinausten said...

Very innovative! Looks yummy! :)

Asiya Omar said...

Looks soooo delicious.

www.mahaslovelyhome.com said...

awesome..it luks very fresh n yummy too..loved it....:-)
Maha

Sensible Vegetarian said...

Looks so good, what a lovely snack.

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jasna varcakovic said...

I think i can find all ingredients ; bookmarked for trying ;-)

Unknown said...

Yummy starter...

Julie said...

What a lovely blend of flavors & a very healthy blck eyed peas kebab..sure to try it out,Faseela:-)
Thanx a lot dear for linking it to my event.
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Rosh said...

Now who would have come up with something like this except you Faseela! Awesome...gotta try it :)

Padhu Sankar said...

Wow Looks absolutely delicious!

Unknown said...

Black eyed peas kabab looks crunchy and yummy.


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easyfoodsmith said...

Very healthy and flavourful kebabs. delicious!

Poornima Nair said...

We use these peas a lot. Would love to make these kebabs someday!

farah saleem said...

wow...yet another new and creative recipe!