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     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     Tablespoons of water or as needed
2     Cups of vegetable oil

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Besan (gram flour)

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 and thaw the spinach. If using fresh spinach then chop it
     fine and boil it.

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

4. Add Besan, carom seeds, red chili powder, asafetida and salt and combine
    them together using your fingers, you do not need to add water because water
    oozed out from spinach itself to form semi thick dough, if needed sprinkle
    some water (Frozen spinach contain lot of water)

Chop onion, potatoes & spinach

In a bowl mix vegetables with Besan & add spices

5.  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.

Pakora dough mix

In a pan heat the oil

6. 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 get
     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.

7. Now with the finger mix the dough . Take a little dough in hand at a time 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.

Drop little dough in the oil to test the oil

Drop little lumps of dough in hot oil

8. Let the pakora's sizzle on medium low heat for 2 minutes then with the spatula turn them around and let the other side fry for 2 minutes, then turn them around again and fry for 2 minutes. 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.

Pakora’s are sizzling

Turn the pakora’s around

9. 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 pakora’s out of the oil

Place the fried pakora’s over paper towel

Mix vegetable pakoras

10. Once you take all the pakoras out of the oil, turn the heat down to low,
       because oil is hot and when you drop another batch of pakoras in the oil they
       will fried quickly from outside and inside the potatoes will stay raw.

11.  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.

12. Serve pakoras hot with coriander chutney or 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)