Corn Meal Onion Rings

Today my recipe is corn meal onion rings.One day I heard about health benefits of yellow corn meal, from that day onwards I am trying to make different tasty dishes with corn meal. Cornmeal is loaded with many  health benefits. Cornmeal has a good amount of fat, fiber, carbohydrates, and protein, so it can be an essential part of a balanced diet.Yellow cornmeal is rich in antioxidants known to prevent cancer, muscular degeneration and cardiovascular disease.The fiber in cornmeal helps promote colon health,  prevent constipation and lowers cholesterol levels.Corn meal is gluten-free.Corn meal is beneficial for managing diabetes. Generally corn meal is used in bakery recipes like breads,cakes, muffins  etc..... in European countries, but in India we make dosa, upma, kheer etc......with corn meal. Now i made corn meal onion rings, i got this from food magazine.This recipe is very easy to make and yummy too. You can make onion rings with besan (gram flour) also. I hope you try it.............enjoy cooking............

Ingredients:

Yellow corn meal - 1/2 cup

Onion ( big size), cut into rings - 1

Ginger - garlic paste - 1/2 tsp

Green chilli paste - 1/4 tsp

Turmeric - 1/4 tsp

Red chilli powder - 1/2 tsp

Chat masala powder - 1 tsp

Dhania - jeera powder - 1/2 tsp

Mint ( pudina) paste (optional) - 1/2 tsp 

Oil - 1 tbsp

Salt to taste

Method of preparation: 

1. In a mixing bowl, add above mentioned all ingredients except onion rings and oil. 
2. Add water to corn meal mixture to get dropping consistency like pakoda batter.
3. Now take a frying pan, apply little oil and take onions ring, dip into the batter and put it on  frying pan carefully.
4. Repeat the same method for all onion rings.
5. Sprinkle few drops of oil and turn the rings and roast them well. Remove from fire, sprinkle some chaat masala on corn meal onion rings.
6. Now yummy and spicy corn meal onion rings are ready to eat with tomato chutney or green chutney.