Vegetable Pakora
Vegetable pakora is crispy and tasty vegetable fritter. It's delicious to enjoy as snacks with your cup of tea/ coffee.
- Prep time
- 15 min
- Cook time
- 20 min
- Yield
- 12 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 1 cup chickpea flour/ Gram flour.
- 1 small onion.
- 1 medium carrot.
- 1 large potato.
- 4-5 green beans.
- 1 handful of cilantro/ coriander leaves.
- 3 Bird’s eye chillies (or 1 tsp dried chilli flakes or red chilli powder.)
- ½ teaspoon ground cumin.
- ½ teaspoon ground coriander.
- ¼ teaspoon turmeric powder.
- ¼ teaspoon whole cumin seeds.
- ¼ teaspoon carom seeds/ Ajwain seeds (see the note.)
- 1 ½ tablespoons rice flour (optional.)
- ¾ teaspoon salt (or according to taste.)
- ⅓ cup water.
- Oil for frying
Instructions
- 1
Peel and cut the carrot in thin julienne sticks. You can also grate the carrot if you prefer. Then place it in a mixing bowl.
- 2
Trim and finely slice the green beans and add them to the carrot. Set aside.
- 3
Peel and thinly slice the onion and put it in carrot mix.
- 4
Chop the coriander leaves and add them to the vegetable mix.
- 5
Peel and grate the potato. Using a kitchen towel, pat the potato to absorb as much as water that comes out of the potato. Then put it in the vegetable mix.
- 6
Sprinkle the rice flour (if using) over the vegetables. Stir well.
- 7
Chop the chillies if using, then add them to the vegetable mix. You can also use 1 tsp dried chilli flakes or red chilli powder if you prefer.
- 8
Then add all the spices, i.e. ground cumin, ground coriander, turmeric powder, whole cumin seeds, carom seeds (if using) and salt into the vegetable. Stir well.
- 9
Add the gram flour in, mix well and pour the water in and stir the vegetable mix.
- 10
Heat the oil in a frying pan. Make sure it’s hot enough, but not too hot. Test it by throwing a little bit of the gram flour mixture in the pan. It should come to the surface at a slow and steady pace. If it comes up fast, it means the oil is too hot, and you would want to turn the heat down.
- 11
Carefully drop a tablespoon of vegetable mixture in the hot oil. You can also use your hand to pick the veggies and place them in the pan. The latter method gives you a bit more control in how much vegetable mixture you want. It also makes the shape of the pakoras thinner and not too bulky. So they fry better.
- 12
Turn the veggie fritters when they look golden. It takes approximately 7-10 minutes to fry these vegetable pakoras.