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Ingredients:
Yield: 8 Servings
Onion Pakora (Vengaya Pakora)
Mint Dipping Sauce (Podina Chatni)
You Will Need: Large pan or deep fryer
In a mixing bowl, blend the dry ingredients with enough water to make a thick batter. Beat in a blender or food processor for 4-5 minutes to incorporate air and make the batter fluffier.Let the batter rest for half an hour in a warm place.Preheat oil for deep frying to 375°.Fold the onions into the batter until evenly distributed.Carefully drop by spoonfuls into the hot oil. Fry in batches until golden brown. Do not crowd. Drain on paper towels or similar.Serve hot (or let them cool, freeze in air-tight bags and re-heat in the oven for later serving) with one or more dipping sauces (recipes below).
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Unlike other fritters, pakoras will hold and can even be re-heated for later serving. Serve them with a choice of dipping sauces.
Mixed Vegetable Pakora: Instead of just onions, substitute about 3 cups of a mixture any: potatoes, cauliflower, eggplant, onions and zucchini, cut into 1/4-inch thick rounds or small florets.
The movie’s setting of Mumbai makes Indian snack food an easy choice for an Oscar-themed party.
Murgh Pakora: marinate cubed, boneless, skinless chicken breast in tandoori marinade for about 30 minutes. Drain excess marinade [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], dip the chicken in the batter and fry.
In a food processor or blender, process the following ingredients until smooth. Yield: About 1 cup
Vegetables for Pakora: eggplant sliced into thin rounds; par-cooked potatoes, sliced into thin rounds; cauliflower or broccoli broken into florets and blanched; peppers sliced into rings; okra sliced into rounds; chopped tomatoes, onions sliced into rings instead of chopped.
Palak Pakora: mix 2-3 cups of chopped spinach or cabbage into the pakora batter.
Ketchup Dipping Sauce
Pakoras are often served simply with ketchup! . –or- This simple sauce comes from a restaurant: Blend together 1 cup each: good tomato ketchup and water [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], 1Tbsp lemon juice, 1 tsp each: salt, sugar, mint sauce. Yield: about 2 cups.
Variations:
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Pakoras are commonly sold by street vendors in many parts of India and Pakistan, wrapped in a newspaper cone. A typical pakora consists of a slice of potato or onions, coated with a mildly spiced chickpea batter and deep fried. Other vegetables or even fish or meats are also made into pakoras (see “variations,” below).
Chickpea flour is also sold as Besan or Bengal gram or garbanzo bean flour. The ingredients are available in the ethnic food section of a well stocked supermarket or an Indian specialty grocer.
Method:
1½ cups chickpea flour1 tsp each: salt [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], ground cumin and ground corianderPinch cayenne pepper (or more, to taste)½ to ¾ cup water3 onions, finely chopped
Paneer Pakora: dip cubed paneer cheese into the pakora batter.
Patak, among others, makes a just-add-water pakora batter mix. They also make a spice mix, “pakora murgh” that you can add to chickpea flour, or you can easily make your own pakoras with the following recipe.