Pyaaz ke Pakode/Onion Fitters

                          Pyaaz ke Pakode/Onion Fitter

      Onion pakoras are a crispy and spicy Indian snack,to make it,a mixture is made by mixing onions with gram flour,rice flour,spices and water and pakoras are fried in oil .whether you are making it for guests or on a rainy evening or in cold weather,but this is not an answer to pakoda.And when this masala is served with tea or mint sause

INGREDIENTS:

2 Onions, finely sliced

½ cup Gram flour/Besan

1 Green Chili, finely sliced

¾ tbsp. Red Chili powder

4-5 fresh Curry leaves roughly chopped

Salt

Oil

PREPARATION:

1.In a bowl mix finely sliced onions with green chili, red chili powder, salt and curry leaves. Mix everything with hands by squeezing the sliced onions a little with fingers. Leave the mixture for 5-10 minutes.

2.In the meantime, heat enough oil for deep frying pakodas in a heavy bottom cooking vessel or kadai.

3.Stepwise in making /Pyaz ke Pakore/Onion Fitters

Now add gram flour spoon by spoon until onion mixture is completely coated with besan. (Don’t add water). The moisture in the onion is enough to bind flour. Mix well.

4.Check whether the oil is hot enough to fry pakoda’s by dropping a small ball of pakoda mixture into the oil, if the ball come on top quickly then you can start frying pakoda’s.

5.Now take a small portion of mixture with your fingers and drop in the hot oil by gently using your thump to release the paokoda batter from fingers.

6.Alternatively you can use a small spoon and drop the mixture slowly into the hot oil. Fry till golden by turning the pakoda’s carefully and gently using a slotted spatula.

7.Drain on to a kitchen tissue or cloth to remove excess oil. Serve hot with tomato sauce or your choice of chutney along with tea or coffee.

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