Mixed vegetable pakora (Fritter)- potatoes, spinach & onion mixed pakoras

Mix vegetables pakoras (fritter)
(Potatoes, spinach & onion mixed pakoras)

Mix vegetable pakoras are awesome. They are prepared by mixing chopped spinach, chopped onions and chopped potatoes into besan (gram flour) and water, then spices are added to it to make it spicy and flavorful then the vegetable and besan paste is fried in the hot oil in small lumps. Mix vegetable pakora taste great hot as well as cold. They are served with tamarind chutney, Dhania chutney or tomato sauce or ketchup. Vegetable pakoras are not only comforting food on a pleasant winter evening with hot cup of tea but they are great for serving in parties which is enjoyed by everyone.

Ingredients:

2     Cups of Besan (gram flour)
1     Medium potato
1    Medium onion
1     Pack 10 oz. of frozen chop spinach or 1 pound fresh spinach- chopped
1 Tablespoon grated ginger
1 Tablespoon minced garlic
1 Green chili chopped
1     Teaspoon Carom seeds (Ajwaiin)
1     Teaspoon red chili powder
1½ Teaspoon salt or to your taste
1     Pinch of asafetida (Hing) or to your taste
2     Cups of vegetable oil or as needed to fry pakoras
Water as needed

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Onion, Potato, Spinach, Garlic, Ginger & Green chili

Frozen chopped Spinach

Besan (Gram Flour)

Carom seeds (Ajwaiian)

Red chili powder

Asafetida (Hing)

Grated ginger

Chopped Green chile

Minced Garlic

Directions:

1. Wash and peel the potato and chop them into very small ¼” pieces. (Chop the
     potatoes either with skin or without skin)

2.  Fine chop the onion.

3.  Thaw the frozen spinach. If using fresh spinach then chop it fine and boil it.
(I am using chopped frozen spinach)

Chopped Potatoes

Fine chopped Onions

4. Thawed spinach contain lot of water, squeeze the water out.

Squeeze the water out from Spinach

Add Spinach in a Bowl

5. In a large bowl add thawed spinach or fresh chopped and boiled spinach,
chopped potatoes and chopped onions and mix.

Add chopped potatoes & chopped onions

Mix the Vegetables together

6. Add Besan, carom seeds, red chili powder, asafetida and salt and combine
them together using your fingers.

Vegetables are mixed

Add Besan, salt & all the spices

7, Add ginger, garlic and green chilies and mix.

Mix Besan with spices & Vegetables

Add Ginger, Garlic & Green chilies & mix

8. Add water as needed to form semi thick dough.

Add water as needed & mix

Mixed vegetable pakora dough

9.  Heat 2 cups of oil in a frying pan or a kadhi. First 5 to 6 minutes keep the heat
     high so that the oil becomes hot quickly. Once the oil become hot turn the heat
     down to medium.

10. To test the oil to see if it is ready, drop a little batter in the hot oil if is rises
     immediately to the surface and sizzles the temperature is correct, if it gets
     brown quickly it means it is too hot then turn the heat down, if it is sink to
     bottom and do not simmer it means it is not hot enough and the pakora's will
      absorb too much oil and remain greasy, adjust the heat accordingly.

Heat oil in a pan

Drop little dough in the oil

11. Now with the finger mix the dough.Take a little dough in hand at a time and with the finger make the dough together and gently drop 10 to 12 pakors
in the hot oil. You do not need to shape the pakora's in any form just drop
small lumps in hot oil.

Take some dough in your hand

Drop the dough in hot oil

Pakoras are simmering in oil

12. With a spatula flicker oil over pakoras.

Flicker oil over pakora's

13. After frying few minutes turn Pakoras to other side and let the other side fry
for 2 minutes, then turn them around again and fry for 2 minutes.

Turn the pakoras to other side

14. After every 2 minutes keep turning the pakoras around so that potatoes
become soft and pakora's become golden brown evenly. It takes about 10
minutes to fry the pakora's.

Keep stirring and turning pakoras

15. Once pakoras are fried, with the spatula take them off the hot oil and place
them on the plate over the paper towel so that extra oil can be absorbed.

Pakoras are fried

Take the pakoras out of the oil

Place the Pakoras over paper towel

16. Once you take all the pakoras out of the oil, take out all the dough dripping
out of the oil.

Take out all the dough drippings from the oil

17. Turn the heat down to low, because oil is hot and when you drop another batch
   of pakoras in the oil they will be fried quickly from outside and inside the
   potatoes will stay raw.

18.  Drop another batch of pakoras in the hot oil, turn the heat up again to
      medium, and fry. Repeat the process until you make all the pakoras.

19. Serve pakoras hot with coriander chutney or ketchup.

Mix Vegetable Pakoras

Green chutney

Ketchup

Please take the time to let me know what you think about my recipe. Your comments would be helpful to me to improve the recipe.

Thank you

Geeta Seth

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Mix vegetables pakoras (fritter)
(Potatoes, spinach & onion mixed pakoras)