Bittergourd Chips / Pavakai Chips

I am not a big fan of bittergourd, infact I used to avoid this veggie before wedding. Later when I started cooking, surfed lots of health facts n nutritious values about this gourd and similar veggies and changed myself to eat all my " hated " veggies...This bitterguord chips always reminds me of my brother...who loves this chips very much....Whenever he goes to the bakery, he never comes back without buying this chips :) I used to give him weird stares those days but I was wrong... Bittergourd is really a very healthy veggie which has Vitamins, Iron, Calcium, Potassium, Magnesium, Folic acid, Zinc and is high on Dietary fiber. Nowadays I make sure to include this healthy veggie atleast once in a week in my diet (my husband still detests it though!!!).
Every year I used to gift my bro for Raksha Bandhan..but he has travelled overseas for his project so decided to prepare his fav recipes, this whole week and wish him a special Raksha Bandhan... atleast he can enjoi watching them on my blog ( I know that he will kill me after coming back, for eating all of his fav recipes n posting jus pics ;) )
Now to one of my brothers' favourite recipe,

Ingredients :

1 Bittergourd, medium sized
1 Tbsp Corn Flour
1 Tbsp Rice Flour
1 1/2 Tsp Chilli powder
1 Tsp Jeera Powder
Salt to taste
Oil for frying

Method :

Wash bittergourd and cut them in to very thin roundels.
Dry them in a tissue paper or kitchen towel.
Now mix Rice flour, corn flour, chilli powder, jeera powder, salt and bittergourd.
Sprinkle very little water and mix well.
Heat oil in a pan and drop them one by one and fry them in a batches ( Medium flame ).
Remove once they turn brown and crisp.
Serve with Sambhar or Curd Rice.