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Deep Fried Vegetables in Batter/ Burmese Style Bhaji/ Abkyaw soun

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Nowadays I am hell bent on improving my bread baking skills. I have even joined the public library to get books on baking and to learn the finer points of bread baking. I also looked at books on International cooking along with the ones on bread baking. I am not an avid reader of Indian cookbooks and rarely follow their recipes, as their spices quantities will not match our taste, either too much or too little most of time it will be first scenario. 

When I saw this book “The Asian Vegan Kitchen” by Hema Parekh, I was curious to turn the pages. The book is about cooking from Asian countries, other than Indian, all other Asian cuisines mainly contains meat or sea food in their dishes with a few vegetable dishes. There are also a few recipes about Burmese cuisine also in this book. As I am hosting this month’s AWED: Burma, I needed some Burmese recipes for event I found it interesting. The recipe on Deep fried veggies in batter got my attention along with a few others. Today I made this for my evening tea.

They taste really good. It is similar to our vegetable bhaji. However I found that adding ginger garlic paste to bhaji batter is a new idea to me. Rest of ingredients are similar ones such as besan (chick pea flour), Rice flour, red chili powder, coriander leaves etc. Only change I made in the recipe was I didn’t use toasted chickpea flour and increased ¼ cup of water. Hema says “these fritters are common in the streets of Mandalay and Rangoon. Locals rarely make at home and buy from the local street vendors and shops where they can get fresh and hot.” They usually serve this one along soup and salad. It is not spicy, if you wish you can increase the  red chili powder.Next time i will increase the  amount of chili powder.

If you like Japanese tempura or Indian bhaji try this at least once, I bet you will become fan of this dish. Here goes easy breezy recipe.

What you need

For batter/Pemonb asut ambit


Chick pea flour/Besan: ¾cup
Rice flour: ¾ cup
Baking powder: a pinch (optional, I didn’t used)
Turmeric: ¼ teaspoon
Chili powder: ¾ teaspoon ( Increase if you need Spicier)
Ginger: 1 inch piece
Garlic: 2 cloves
Fresh coriander leaves: 2 tablespoon (finely chopped)
Olive oil: 1 teaspoon
Salt: ¾ teaspoon
Water:1 cup

Vegetables 

Egg plant: ½ of one( cut into rounds)
Green bell pepper: 1 no (cut into 4 inch strips)
Onion: ½ of one onion (cut into rounds)

How I made

Heat oil in a thick bottomed pan .

Wash and peel the skin of egg plant, onion and cut into thin rounds and keep aside. Cut green bell pepper into 4 inch strips and keep aside.

In a medium bowl, all the ingredients for the batter and slowly add the water to form a thick batter. Not too loose. When you are dipping the vegetables it should covered with the batter.

Once the oil becomes hot about 360 degree Fahrenheit. Dip the vegetables in the batter and slowly add to hot oil few at a time.

When it cooks for about 3 minute on one slide flip the other side and cook another 2 minutes or until they become golden yellow color and crispy. Remove them using slotted spoon and drain the excess oil using a kitchen towel.

Repeat the above process until all the batter and vegetables are used up.

Enjoy with sweet chutney or hot and sour tamarind chutney. I didn’t use any chutney. We had it without any chutney.

Preparation time: 40 minutes
Yield: 4 serving
Verdict: Tasty
Will you make it again: Yes I will

This Deep fried vegetables in Batter/Burmese style Bhaji is going to AWED : Burma  hosted by me originally started by DK.

Swathi

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  1. Scott Papazian says

    How are these different from regular Indian bhajjis?

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    • Swathi Iyer says

      Scott, using ginger garlic paste and roasted chick pea flour in the ingredients.

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  2. tanguy roberti says

    Hello,

    We were travelling in Myanmar for 27 days and we enjoyed their street food. We especially liked their morning snack, -like a churros- that you put in your tea. We are deseperately looking at how to make the batter of these. Do you have any idea?

    Many thanks in advance.
    Cheers

    Tanguy

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  3. Ivy says

    Thank you for passing from my blog. These vegetables look delicious.

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  4. vineetha says

    lovely snack..liked ur new look of the blog.

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  5. Preeti Kashyap says

    Yummy! I love this evening snack...so yummy!

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  6. தக்குடுபாண்டி says

    அந்த லாஸ்ட் போட்டோல இருக்கும் ஐய்ட்டத்தை அப்படியே தக்குடு குழந்தை இருக்கர பக்கமா நகத்தி விடுங்கோ பாப்போம்!!...:) பஜ்ஜி வா! வா!னு என்னை கூப்படரது!!!..:)

    என்றும் வம்புடன்,
    தக்குடு

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  7. Rachana says

    Wow! Crispy, crunchy and delicious fritters and goes really well with a cuppa tea 🙂

    Have a lovely weekend!

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  8. Ameya says

    Very similar to our Indian bhajji,looks awesome!!

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  9. sanjeeta kk says

    Delicious looking snack. Tempting to try this weekend.

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  10. srikars kitchen says

    Looks delicious & crispy..nice clicks..

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  11. Panchpakwan says

    Looks so wouthwatering bajjis...

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  12. GayathriRaj says

    Wow i love Bhaji's a lot and these came out very perfect and i loveed it...and that too with so many diff veggies is a good one....looking delicious...

    Reply

  13. Viki's Kitchen says

    very nice bhaji in Burmese style dear. I can have it with some hot tea...looks delicious.

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  14. Cinnamon-Girl says

    These look so delicious with that flavor filled batter! Nice and light and crispy!

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  15. Usha says

    Looks delicious !

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  16. Life is beautiful!!! says

    Swathi, thats a nice and tasty way to include vegetables. Expecting lots of nice bakes fro you soon. Burmese cuisine event will definitely be interesting. I think there will be many similarities between ours and Burmese cuisine.

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  17. Sarah Naveen says

    Looks so perfect and yummy dear...loved it..

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  18. Vrinda says

    Gr8 way to eat veggies...looks gr8

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  19. PranisKitchen says

    really delicious vegettable fries.. nice burman recipe.

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  20. srividhya Ravikumar says

    surely it is a great snack swati.. thanks dear..

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  21. Faith says

    I love eggplant and I'm always looking for new recipes to use it in...thanks for sharing this one! Delicious! 🙂

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  22. simply.food says

    These fritters look wonder ful they are very simolar to bhajiyas we gujaratis make too.

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  23. Cool Lassi(e) says

    Anything deep fried is divine. This is kinda similar to our Bajji

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  24. Kiran says

    Swathi,These vegetable fritters look very delicious.

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  25. RV says

    I think people in Burma got influenced by the Chettiars who visited them for trading. If we look at most of the cuisines inspires one another. This is a excellent recipe.

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  26. Priya says

    Tempting fritters, looks awesome for snacks, goes prefect with a cup of coffee..

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  27. Jay says

    your recipe is tempting me to giv a try. yummy

    Reply

  28. Nithya says

    This sounds really interesting 🙂

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  29. divya says

    Looks good and sounds interesting

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  30. Suman Singh says

    love eggplants in any form..that looks delicious..very crispy too..

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  31. Sushma Mallya says

    loved the ingredients for the batter, very flavourful and fritters looks very crispy as well...

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  32. Nithu Bala says

    Swati, This is such a lovely evening snack..great click:-)

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  33. Priya (Yallapantula) Mitharwal says

    Swathi, those look amazing and a great way of feeding kids veggies 🙂

    Reply

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