Bread pakoda
Bread pakoda. The other ones are made similar to the bread rolls or bread bonda but not the same. To make plain bread pakora, just dip the bread slices in batter and deep fry. You can use the same recipe mentioned below, skip making the stuffing.
You can either make it without any filling with just bread and the batter or fill it with a spicy potato or paneer filling. Here is how to make it at home. Bread Pakora, a popular street food and teatime snack from Indian cuisine, is a perfect snack to serve with a cup of tea in cool relaxing winter evening or rainy afternoon. You can cook Bread pakoda using 14 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Bread pakoda
- It's 4 slices of bread.
- Prepare 2 of boiled potatoes.
- It's 1 cup of gram flour.
- It's 1/4 cup of rice flour.
- You need As required of Oil for Friying.
- Prepare to taste of Salt.
- You need As required of Water.
- Prepare 1/2 tsp of red chilli powder.
- You need 1/2 tsp of dry mango powder.
- You need 1/2 tsp of cumin powder.
- Prepare 1 pinch of turmeric powder.
- It's 1 pinch of garam masala powder.
- You need 2 of green chili finely chopped.
- You need Handful of Fresh Coriander leaves finely chopped.
Similar to bhajji, it is essentially a deep fried snack having crisp outer coating of besan (chickpea flour). To Make bread pakoras bread is smeared with green chutney and then stuffed with spiced mashed potatoes. The sandwiched bread is dipped in batter made of gram flour and rice flour batter and then deep fried. The best way to serve this pakoda is piping hot straight from the kadai onto your plate.
Bread pakoda step by step
- Peel boiled potato Mash or grate them and transfer to a bowl. Add 1 finely chopped green chilli, 2 tablespoons finely chopped coriander leaves, 1/2 teaspoon red chilli powder, 1 teaspoon cumin-coriander powder, 1/4 teaspoon dry mango powder, a pinch of garam masala powder and salt. Mix well. Taste for the seasonings and add more if required. Stuffing masala is ready..
- Take 1 cup gram flour, 1 tablespoon rice flour, a pinch of baking soda, 1/4 teaspoon red chilli powder and salt in a wide-mouthed bowl. Add water as needed (approx. 1/2 cup + 3 tablespoons) and mix well to make the batter. Batter should not be too thick or too thin. It should have a consistency like bajii/pakora batter..
- Take one bread slice and spread stuffing mixture evenly over it. Don’t overstuff the mixture. Cover it with another bread slice and gently press it. Prepare all bread slices (raw pakoras) in the same way..
- Heat oil for deep frying bread pakoras over medium flame. Check if the oil is hot enough for deep frying by adding a small drop of batter in it. If it comes on the surface gradually without changing the colour, it is medium hot and ready for frying. If it doesn’t come on the surface it means oil is not hot enough. If it comes on the surface immediately and turns brown it means oil is too hot. Dip each triangle-shaped piece in the batter. Coat it evenly on all sides with the batter..
- Gently lift it with your hand and slide it in the medium hot oil.Deep fry until bottom surface turns light golden brown. It will take approx. 1-2 minutes.Flip it and deep fry another side until bottom surface turns light golden and crispy. Fry both sides until it turns crispy and light golden brown on all sides.Remove it from the oil using a slotted spoon and transfer to a plate lined with paper napkin. Deep fry remaining bread pakodas in same way and serve hot or warm..
Bread Pakora is served well with Coriander Chutney and hot Tea or Coffee. Bread Pakora is prepared both with and without stuffing. In this article we will cover Bread Pakora recipe without stuffings. Since, Bread Pakora is a calorie Powerhouse we recommend having them in limited quantiy. Bread Pakora is a popular and tasty snack of deep fried bread fritters from the North Indian Cuisine, especially Punjabi Cuisine.