Raw Plantain Fritters / Aratikaya Bajji - Indian Street food

It's winter here and days are getting cold day by day. These cold winter days are tempting me to make and eat hot fried fritters almost every evening. So here is another tasty tea time snack.

 Raw Plantain Fritters/ Aratikaya Bajji tastes too good with Coconut chutney, the chutney which we make for breakfast with coconut and roasted gram(dalia). 

Ingredients

2 Raw Plantain

1 cup Chickpea Flour / Besan Flour

1 tablespoon Rice Flour

1/2 teaspoon Red Chilli Powder

1/2 teaspoon Ajwain

A Big pinch of Baking Powder

Salt to taste

Oil for deep frying

1. Mix besan flour, rice flour, red chilli powder, salt and ajwain in a bowl. Add water to make a thick bajji batter so that the plantain slices get coated with batter all over.

2. Peel the skin and cut plantain to thin slices. Place them in water. Heat oil for deep frying.  When the oil enough reduce it to medium flame. Add Baking Powder to batter, mix it. Now place 4-5 plantain slices in batter. Coat each slice with batter nicely.

3. Gently place them in oil. Place 4-5 slices at at time. But do not overcrowd it. Fry them till golden yellow.

4. Have it with coconut chutney. A great tea time snack.