CABBAGE PAKODA / PAKORA

Cabbage Pakoda / Pakora is the most popular and a crispy snack variety in south India. This is a perfect tea time snack and also it taste delicious to have it with variety rice and south indian meals.

This is similar to the traditional pakoda recipe but added only little onion and added sliced cabbage to it. This gives you more crispy pakoda. It is very easy and made very quickly. Lets look at the steps to prepare this pakoda.

Preparation Time : 10 mints | Cooking Time : 30 mints | Serves : 3-4

Ingredients :

Besan flour - 3/4 cup

Rice flour - 1/4 cup

Cabbage - 1 cup ( sliced / shredded)

Onion - 1/4 cup ( sliced / shredded)

Curry leaves - few chopped

Cilantro - few chopped

Turmeric - 1/4 tspn

Salt - 1 tbspn

Red chili powder - 1 tspn

Hing - 1/4 tspn

Garam masala - 1/2 tspn

Water - 4 tbspn

Oil - 1 tbspn + for deep frying

Preparation :

1. In a bowl, add the besan flour, rice flour, chili powder, turmeric , garam masala . salt and hing. Mix well the add the cabbage , onion , curry leaves and coriander leaves . Mix well by crushing the vegetables well with the flour.

2. Add the water little by little and mix well. After mixing, it will be as shown in the picture. Heat the oil and add a tbspn of hot oil to the batter and mix well. Once the oil is hot ,reduce the heat to medium. Take a little prepared pakoda batter and drop it into the oil.

3. Fry the pakoras until golden brown , by stirring in between often.

4. Once the pakoras turns golden , remove it from the oil and drain excess oil on a paper towel.

Serve the crispy pakoras with hot tea..!!!