Aloo Pakora is a famous street food usually made at any corner of the city and served with green Chutney. Let’s make it at home in a hygienic way.
Ingredients:-
- 3 Medium Potatoes / Aloo
- Salt to taste / Namak swad anusar
- 1 cup Gram flour / Besan
- 1/2 cup Water / Pani
- 1 tbsp Rice flour / Chawal atta
- 1 tsp Coriander paste or Chutney or 1 tbsp chopped fresh Coriander / Dhaniya
- 1/2 tsp Red Chilli powder / Lal mirch
- 1/4 tsp Turmeric / Haldi
- 1/2 Carom seeds / Ajwain
- 1 pinch Asafoetida / Hing
- 1 pinch Baking soda
- Oil for frying
- Some chaat masala to sprinkle ( Optional )
Method:-
- Wash and peel the potatoes, cut into thin slices using a mandoline or a sharp knife.
- Rinse the potato slices 1 to 2 times to take out starch,with clean water and then keep them aside dry.
- Now in a bowl add gram flour, salt, carom seeds, turmeric powder, chilli powder, baking soda, asafoetida, coriander Chutney and rice flour. Mix all the ingredients together.
- Gradually adding water make a batter which is neither too thick nor too thin.
- Now taking each slice of potato coated with the made batter then drop it in the hot oil to fry.
- Fry these in batches over a medium heat till crispy golden. Strain out over a paper towel.
- Serve hot with green coriander that is the Dhaniya Chutney.
Tips :-
- To make the batter initially add little water make a paste breaking all the lumps and then gradually add whole of the water.