Aloo pakora recipe
Easy aloo pakora - Tea time snack
Servings: 4 people
Ingredients
- 2 potatoes
- 1 cup besan | gram flour
- ¼ tsp turmeric powder
- ¼ tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp red chili powder
- ¼ tsp ajwain | omam
- Salt as needed
- 2 tbsp finely chopped coriander leaves
- Water as needed to make the batter
- Oil for deep frying
Instructions
- Wash and peel potatoes. Place them in water.
- Once you are ready to cut, take out and slice them thinly.
- Soak in water. Let this sit in water till we make the batter.
- Add 1 cup besan | gram flour in a bowl
- Add ¼ tsp turmeric powder, ¼ tsp baking soda, ¼ tsp ajwain, 1 tsp red chili powder,2 tbsp coriander leaves, and 1 tsp ginger garlic paste.
- Add water to make a batter. Let the batter be in a dosa batter consistency.
- Keep aside.
- Drain water from potatoes and pat dry them in a kitchen towel.
- Add 2 tsp hot oil to the batter. This helps in the crispy outer layer also the pakoras will not absorb much oil.
- Mix well.
- Dip the potato slices in the batter and gently drop in oil.
- Let this cook in medium flame.
- Flip them and cook
- Cook till it becomes golden brown and the oil sound subsides.
- Take them out and drain in a kitchen towel.
- Repeat this for the rest of the batter.
- If you have extra batter, chop one onion finely and mix to the batter.
- Take in small portions and deep fry in oil.
Notes
- Always cut the potato into thin slices. You can use the mandolin slicer to cut them as well.
- If you want the Aloo pakoras to be very crispy, add ¼ cup of rice flour to the batter.
- In that case, let this be ¾ th cup of besan and ¼ the cup of rice flour.
- Potatoes can be replaced with onions as well.
- Do not more baking soda then the quantity mentioned.
