Chinna Vengayam Pachai Milagai Poriyal (Onion Fry)

Ingredients:

• Small Onion (Chinna Vengayam) – 1.5 cups (peeled)
• Green Chili – 3 to 4
• Hing – 3 to 4 pinches
• Turmeric powder – 1/4 tspn
• Salt – to taste
• Oil – 2 to 4 tspn
• Mustard seeds and Urad dal – 1/2 tspn
• Cumin seeds – 1/4 tspn
• Fried Chana dal Powder (porikadalai podi) – 1 to 2 tspns (Optional)

Recipe:

1. Cut Onion into small pieces. Heat Oil in a pan. Add Mustard seeds, Urad dal and Cumin seeds. 
2. Once the seeds starts spluttering add green chili and fry for a minute.
3. Add Onion and fry till they are light brown.
   
4. Add Salt, Hing and Turmeric powder.
5. Sprinkle little water. Cover and cook for 5 minutes.
6. Fry till it become dry. Sprinkle the fried chana dal powder and remove from heat.

Goes well with: Curd Rice, Dal Rice, Kanji