Maggi Pakoda. Pic/YouTube

The usual way of eating Maggi noodles is loved by millions of children as well as youth across the country. Despite controversies over the noodles and its tangy tastemaker masala, Nestle's Maggi has remained an all time favourite quick-to-cook snack. The economical ‘2-minute noodles’ is the mecca of every food experimentalists. Be it adding cheese and vegetables to Maggi or stuffing the noodles inside chapattis to make Maggi rolls, there are many unique ways of eating the food item. Here are 5 different ways to eat Maggi, all of which keeps the noodles '2-minute USP' intact.

Maggi pakoda:

Ingredients:
• Maggi noodles
• Onions
• Green chillies
• Turmeric powder
• Cumin powder
• Red chilli powder
• Maggi tastemaker masala
• Gram flour/besan
• Oil
• Water
• Salt

Method:
• Place water in a pot. When the water starts to heat up, add Maggi noodles and the tastemaker masala.
• Cook the noodles for two minutes and take it down in a bowl. Make sure the noodles do not melt, there is no gravy and it stays a bit hard and dry.
• In a bowl add water in right proportion, gram flour, chopped onions, chopped green chillies, salt, red chilli powder, cumin powder, turmeric powder.
• Mix these ingredients together and make a fine thick batter.
• Add the boiled Maggi, mix the batter once again and make medium sized balls.
• In the meantime heat refined oil in a wok on medium flame.
• Put the balls (pakodas) on the heated oil and deep fry till they turn golden brown.
• Serve on a plate and eat the crispy Maggi pakodas with tomato chilli ketchup.

Maggi Omlette. Pic/YouTube

Maggilet (Maggi omelette)

Ingredients:
• Maggi noodles
• Maggi tastemaker masala
• Egg
• Onion
• Green chillies
• Capsicum
• Tomato
• Salt
• Pepper
• Red Chilli powder

Method: