Pakodi Recipe (Street Style Onion Pakora)

Pakodi Recipe (Street Style Onion Pakora)

These street style onion pakoda are super crisp, addictive and delicious. They are great as a party appetizer or a snack with chai/ tea or with cilantro chutney.

For best results follow my detailed step-by-step photo instructions and tips.

Prep Time10

Cook Time10

Total Time20

Servings3

AuthorSwasthi

Ingredients (1 cup = 240ml )

1 ¼ cup onions thinly sliced
¾ tsp ginger garlic paste
2 green chilies chopped
10 mint /pudina leaves chopped finely,
1 sprig curry leaves chopped finely,
2 sprigs coriander leaves chopped finely,
Salt as needed
¼ cup besan / gram flour
2 tbsps rice flour
2 tbsps corn flour
¼ to ½ tsp red chili powder
1/8 tsp turmeric / haldi
½ tsp ajwain (carom seeds, crushed)
1 tbsp oil very hot
Oil for deep frying

How to make the recipe

Prepration

Wash and peel onions. Slice them thin. Chop chilies, mint, coriander and curry leaves. Mix together onions, salt, chilies, ginger garlic paste and the leaves. Mix very well for 30 seconds. Set aside for 10 mins.
Add the flours chili powder, turmeric and ajwain. If the mixture is too dry, splash little water and mix together to form a sticky dough (see pictures in the post).
Add 1 tbsp oil to a pan and heat it. When it turns very hot, pour it to the mixture and mix with a spoon first. Then with your hand.

Making onion pakora

Heat oil in a deep kadai or fry pan. When the oil is hot enough, drop small portions of the mixture in the hot oil.
Fry on a medium heat stirring often until they turn golden and crunchy. Remove them to a cooling rack. Fry the rest of the pakodas in bacthes, making sure the oil is medium hot.
Serve onion pakoda hot with tea.

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