Crispy Palak Pakoda / Spinach Fritters are healthy tea time snacks.
Prep Time10 minutesmins
Cook Time30 minutesmins
Total Time40 minutesmins
Course: Snack
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients
2CupsPalak Leavestightly packed
1BigOnionChopped
¾CupBesan / Gram flour
Water as Required
Salt To Taste
1Teaspoon Chilli Powder
1TablespoonCorn Flour
2TeaspoonCoriander Powder
Add Any One Of the Following
1TeaspoonWhite Sesame Seeds
1TeaspoonJeera / Cumin Seeds
1TeaspoonFennel Seeds
Instructions
For Blanching Spinach leaves. Heat required water in a pan. Add in salt. Once the water is warm enough switch off the flame and add in the spinach leaves and leave it for 5 minutes.
After 5 minutes remove the spinach leaves from water. Chop them and add them into a mixing bowl. Add in Chopped onion. Add in gram flour.
Add in salt to taste, Chilli powder and Coriander Powder.
Add in Corn Flour, Sesame Seeds and mix them well.
Sprinkle water little by little and mix them until pasty smooth consistency is reached. Heat oil in a tawa and drop 1 tablespoon full of batter into the hot oil.
Deep fry them until it is cooked well and turns golden brown on all sides.
Place them in a absorbant paper for the excess oil to be absorbed. Serve Crispy Pakoda.
Notes
While placing the pakodas into hot oil for deep frying them do not over crowd with more pakodas in one go. They would stick with each other.
Cook in low flame so that the pakodas cook well.
If you are adding more than one tablespoon of batter in one pakoda they wont turn crispy instead they would have a softer inside with a crispy outside coating.