Tempting Palak Paokdas to go with your evening tea!

Try it out 🙂

Palak Pakoda
Image Credit: Mujahid Khaleel

Ingredients

• Palak/ Spinach – 2 cups
• Gram flour / Besan – 1 cup
• Onion thinly sliced  –  1 small
• Rice flour  – 2 tbsp
• Cumin seeds/ jeera – 1/2 tsp
• Green chillies – 3-4
• Coriander leaves – 2 tbsp
• Turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp
• Salt as required

Method

• Wash the spinach thoroughly and finely chop it. Thinly slice the onion
• Heat oil in a Kadai for deep fry
•  Mix the gram flour, rice flour, cumin seeds, green chillies, turmeric powder and salt in a bowl
• Add hot oil to this mixture. ( the hot oil and rice flour helps in making crispy pakodas)
• Add the spinach, onion and coriander leaves ( finely chopped) to the bowl and mix
• The spinach will leave some water so add water if required
• Make sure the batter is not watery. It should be of dropping consistency
• If the batter becomes a little water add a little gram flour. Make the pakodas immediately after mixing the batter
• Prepare  the pakodas by dropping the mixture little by little into the Kadai and deep fry till golden brown.
• Serve these crispy pakodas with tomato ketchup or pudina chutney.