Vegetable pakora recipe, How to make pakora

Vegetable pakora is a crispy and delicious deep fried snack made with veggies like cabbage, carrot, capsicum and onion along with gram flour, rice flour and basic spices. This simple and quick to make South Indian style pakora is a little healthy version of regular onion pakoda. This pakora can be served with hot chai/ coffee. As soon as the pakoda mixture is prepared make pakoda immediately as the batter will be become watery later and wont yield in crispy pakoda. I have added vegetables that cook easily so if you wish to add any other veggies, use only those that cook quickly. So let’s get to the making!

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Vegetable pakora recipe, How to make pakora

2019-08-06 23:26:06

Serves 4

Prep Time

10 min

Cook Time

15 min

Total Time

25 min

Prep Time

10 min

Cook Time

15 min

Total Time

25 min

Ingredients

1. Cabbage – 1 cup (shredded)
2. Carrot – ½ cup (julienne/ , thin slices)
3. Capsicum – ½ cup (julienne/ thin slices)
4. Onion – ½ cup (thin slices)
5. Curry leaves - few
6. Besan – 1 cup
7. Rice flour – ½ cup
8. Red chilli powder – ½ tsp
9. Salt – to taste
10. Water – ¼ to ½ cup (approx)
11. Oil- for deep frying +1 tbsp

Note

* 1 cup = 235 ml

Instructions

Heat oil in a frying pan. In a bowl add thinly sliced onions, capsicum, carrot, and cabbage.
Now to the veggies add besan flour, rice flour, salt and hot oil. Mix well.
Now add water gradually to form the vegetable pakoda batter. The batter should be crumbly. (I used less than ¼ to ½ cup water to make crumbly batter). Make pakoda immediately otherwise the batter will become watery and will wont yield crispy pakoda.
Now spread the crumbly batter in oil using fingers as it does not require any particular shape. Fry them in medium flame until crunchy and light golden color. When done remove it using slotted spoon and transfer it to a paper towel and serve it hot with chai/ tea! Repeat the process till all the crumbly batter is over. Then fry curry leaves and garnish the pakoda and relish it.

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How to make Vegetable pakora with step by step images

Heat oil in a frying pan. In a bowl add thinly sliced onions, capsicum, carrot, and cabbage. Now to the veggies add besan flour, rice flour, salt and hot oil. Mix well.
Now add water gradually to form the vegetable pakoda batter. The batter should be crumbly. (I used less than ¼ to ½ cup water to make crumbly batter). Make pakora immediately otherwise the batter will become watery and will wont yield crispy pakoda.
Now spread the crumbly batter in oil using fingers as it does not require any particular shape. Fry them in medium flame until crunchy and light golden color. When done remove it using slotted spoon and transfer it to a paper towel and serve it hot with chai/ tea! Repeat the process till all the crumbly batter is over. Then fry curry leaves and garnish the pakoda and relish it.