five minutes later!

All my previous plants have died at the end of the year. Are you saying you can keep them year after year?

If they start to sprout - google how to plant out sprouting onions - works a treat - and you got more from each onion.  Involves peeling onion down to indivdual sprouting parts

will do... lets hope I use them first!!

two of my bhajees
they smell amazing, even cold
note the amount of gram flour I used was 1/4 the weight of onion

Could you post the full bhaji recipe Pete?

Could you post the full bhaji recipe Pete?

Don't think Dave is watching
are you Dave?
the book recipe  is for a whopping 120 bhajees, but we're not going to do that are we?
this is my scaled down version
I used two huge onions which weighed 600g
I sliced into strips then put in a bowl
I added 1 1/2 desert spoons of salt
Mixed it all in by hand
and left it for two hours
No water is added for this recipe
you use the juice from the onions
then I added

1 egg
1/2 desert spoon madras curry powder
1/2 desert spoon garlic ginger puree
1 teaspoon slightly crushed coriander seeds
1/2 teaspoon slightly crushed cummin seeds
1/2 teaspoon slightly crushed fennel seeds
small handfull of finely chopped coriander leaves
pinch of ajwain seeds
1 desertspoon SR flour
1/2 desert spoon baking powder
150g gram flour

now get your hand in and really mix this up for a minute or two
leave about five minutes

Heat the oil to a low setting
I do this old school, by adjusting the gas
But it was 130 degrees
Cook for ten minutes
The bhajees don't go dark, they stay golden
Definitely watch the heat
Very important to keep low
the mixture is very easy to loosely shape into a ball
this makes about 10 bhajees
and it keeps the shape in the oil but expands a bit (probably the baking powder)

you're meant to let the bhajees cool, then deep fry again at a high temperature for a minute, when required
I have done them like this and they are absolutely fantastic

they get almost a hard shell on the outside, while remaining soft on the inside

but this time I just microwaved them hot
and they were superb