Possible Clues:

• Indian dish of vegetables, especially onion, fried in batter
• Indian fried dish
• Vegetable appetiser in Indian cookery
• Fried ball of vegetables
• Indian appetiser
• Appetiser with vegetables deep-fried in batter
• Sounds like one who has a lighter spicy starter
• On pilgrimage, at first buy one spicy snack
• Indian fried appetiser
• Husband, tucking into punch, picked up one Indian snack