Chilo - Bread - Pakoda [Pakora]

 Chilo - Bread: Famous Sindhi Breakfast  
This was yet another Sunday morning and I was waiting for my break fast , as Sunday is the only day when I took breakfast so my daughter-in-law become habituate to prepare something with sindhi fragrance and today she served me "Chilo - Bread" . Here is recipes of this yet another Sindhi Snack, which has some what resemblance with famous south Indian food stuff "Dosa".

 INGREDIENTS:-  200gm Basen [Gram flour] , 1-2 medium sized Onion [Fine Chopped], 1-2 Green Chillies [Chopped into small pieces], 1-2 chopped Coriander leaf, Salt to test, 1-2 tablespoon oil for frying and water. 
 
METHOD    :- .1. Mix the flour with water to get a flowing solution. .2. Add onion, Green Chillies, coriander leaf. 3. stir to get indigenous solution 4. Add salt to taste and mix solution properly.  5. Put few drops of oil on hot frying plate [tava] and spread some part of solution in round shape. 6. turn the side when become yellowish and keep on frying till golden brown color.  7. serve hot with slice of bread. 8. some people also use chopped tomato. 9. In the recent times tomato sauce or green chatani are also served with this dish.

       When it comes to Sindhi Food beside the Potato, Rice, Dal and Papad another prominent and most eaten Sindhi Dish is "Pakoda" [ also spelled as "Pakora"]. This is the most famous Sindhi snack, which is often known as "Sanha Pakora" and in all probabilities is among the food stuffs with most variants.  

      Basically this is a dish prepared from Basen [gram flour], onion, and coriander, but option of utility of various vegetables and food stuffs with basic ingredients makes this famous sindhi snack , a food with most variants.

Some of the most famous and widely used variants of this fried snacks are:

Bread Pakoda
Patatan Ja Pakora
Palak Pakoda
Bihan Ja Pakoda [Bih Pakora] [Under water stem of lotus flower] 
Mirchai Pakora
Panner Pakoda
Egg [Andan Ja] Pakora
Ambadi [Unripe Mango] Ja Pakoda
Mahin Ain Moongan Ji Dal Ja Pakora
Gobi [Cabbage] Ain Kemae [Very Fine and minutely chopped Mutton] Ja Pakora
Dabu [Capsicum] Pakoda

Ingredients [for Basic Dish] : 1 small cup [about 100 gms] Gram flour [basen], 1-2 small Onion (chopped), 2-3 Coriander leaves (chopped), Red Chilli powder [to taste], 2-3 Green chillies (finely chopped), 1 table spoon Coriander seeds (Saja Dhana), A pinch of baking soda, Salt to taste, Water, Oil for frying.

Method: 1. Mix all the ingredients to get a thick batter by using appropriate water be cautious to avoid formation of lumps. 2. Add few drops say 1 table spoon  of hot oil to this batter and mix well again. 3. Take oil in fry pan for deep frying and allow to heat, Keep the flame medium. 4. Either with hand or by spoon slide gently the pieces of mixture into hot oil. 5. Wait till the pieces of mixture gets some what brownish color. 6. Take out and break into further small pieces. 7. Fry again till pieces become dark golden brown and crisp. 8. Serve it hot in the chill humid rainy evening it taste very good with hot cup of tea.

Note : In the variants except the additional ingredient, all the basic ingredients are used as coating hence high amount of water is used while preparing mixture to get a semi viscous liquid. Onion and Coriander leaves are not used. At some places people use only basen, backing soda and water for preparing coating solution and use other ingredients with additional ingredient of variant. Eggs are used after boiling, similarly hard to cook ingredients like Bih and Kemo are boiled before being used for preparing their Pakora variant. In the variants cutting the variants in some specific shape, Pakodas of different size and shape can be prepared.