Boiled groundnuts / Avicha Verkadalai

It`s a tasty snack usually sold by the street vendors.They sell it in two options,one is the plain boiled (avicha) verkadalai and another with all the masala.My mom buys them for  me and my sister when we return from the temple.It would be nice to have these warm kadalai one by one while walking back home.It can easily be prepared at home and  relished with a stewing hot coffee or tea in rainy days.
Ingredients:
Groundnuts / Verkadalai  - 1/2 kg
Salt - to taste

Method:

Soak the groundnuts (i usually prefer with shells ) in water and add salt (as per taste prefered).Now pressure cook it for 3 whistles.Turn off the stove and let it cool.Now break the shells and you can have the tasty verkadalai.

Bajji

It can be served as appetizers or can be had as main snack with tea or coffee.It can be prepared at home in no time.It`s nice to have these bajji when its raining or cold outside.Bhajji can be made with different vegetables like Onion,Potato,Raw plantain (vazhakkai),Big green chilli (bhaji milagai),cauliflower.
Ingredients:
Vazhakkai / Raw plantain - 2 nos
Gram flour - 5 tbsp
Rice flour- 1 tbsp
Water - 1 or 2 glasses
Salt - 1 tsp
Chilli powder - 1 tsp

Turmeric powder - a pinch
Method:

 

 Mix  well the rice flour,gram flour,salt,chilli powder and turmeric powder.Make this into a thick batter by adding water slowly while whisking it at the same time.Peel the cover of vazhakkai ( or potato) and cut it into long thin pieces.Heat a heavy bottom pan and add sufficient oil for frying.Dip the vazhakkai in the gram flour batter and drop them slowly into the oil.Fry till it comes to golden colour on both the sides.Serve with coconut chutney.