Bread Pakora

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Bread Pakora is a one popular snacks of India for fried street food lovers. It’s outer part is made with crunchy bread layer and stuffed with spicy aloo (potato) masala.

Pakora, which is also popularly known as bhaji or fritter is a fried snacks. Which’s base ingredient is besan (Bengal gram flour). And rest of the other ingredient decides its name.

Like besan and onion make onion pakora, chili and besan make chili pakora, besan and chicken make chicken pakora etc.

In India pakora is a very popular spicy starter dish. You can serve it to you family as a evening snacks or make it for a small kitty party to engage your friends.

If you are foreigner and came to India to Explore its tradition, culture and food. Then you must try pakoras to taste a small bite of Indian cuisine.

One more thing you have to remember about the India is that- India is a mix of people and their culture. So you will get a certain type of foods only in a particular area. That is the uniqueness of Indian food.

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INGREDIENTS

1cup-240ml; 1tablespoon – 15ml ; 1teaspoon – 5ml;

For outer layer of pakora

• Bread slices (Brown Bread) – 8 pieces
• Water – 3 cup
• Oil – 1 tbsp.

For potato stuffing

• Potato (boiled) – 3 medium size
• Green peas (boiled) – 1/2 cup
• Green chili (chopped)- 3 pieces or 1 tbsp.
• Coriander leaves (chopped) – 1/4 cup
• Roasted peanuts – 1/4 cup
• Chat masala – 1 tsp
• Cumin powder – 1 tsp
• Black pepper – 1/4 tsp
• Black salt – 1 tsp
• Sugar – 1/4 tsp
• Butter – 1 tbsp.

For fry them or bake the pakora

• Butter or oil – as per requirement

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How to make Bread Pakora

Step 1: Firstly we need to boil the potatoes and green peas properly. Then drain the water out and smash them and let them set aside for cooling.

Step 2: Meanwhile take the breads and remove the hard parts around the bread with a knife. We don’t need them for the recipe.

Tips: Use the cut piece of the bread for bread crumb for your other recipes. To do that microwave them for 2 minutes and then roughly crush them.

Step 3: At this point add chopped green chilis 1 tbsp., chopped coriander leaves 1/4 cup, roasted peanuts 1/4 cup, chat masala 1 tsp, cumin powder 1 tsp, black pepper 1/4 tsp, black salt 1 tsp, sugar 1/4 tsp, butter 1 tbsp. into the boiled potato and peas. Now mix them very well.

Step 4: Now take a big bowl, add 3 cup of normal water and 1 tbsp. of oil into it. Mix them well.

Step 5: After that take a bread piece and dip it into the water. Then press it by your plums and try to rinse all the water from it.

Step 6: Now put 1 tbsp. of potato masala mixture on the wet bread and try to make a ball by covering the potato. Follow these steps to make rest of the bread pakoras.

Step 7: When all the bread pakora balls are ready. Then put them all on a baking tray and brush them with little oil. Now put it inside a oven and set it for 20 minutes at convection mode.

Tips: Flip them all after completing 10 minutes and let them bake from both of the sides. This process makes the Bread Pakoras more crispy and tasty.

Step 8: Finally our Bread Pakoras are ready, serve them with sweet tomato sauce or spicy green chutney. I hope you will like it and definitely try at home.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is bread pakora called in English?

English name of bread pakora is bread fritter or you can say baked bread cutlet.

How can I make my bread pakora less oily?

To get healthy and less oily pakora, bake them instead of frying them in oil.

In that case you need some drop of oil and a brush. And use them to brush the pakora’s top and just bake them for 20 minutes.

Is pakora a junk food?

Your cooking process decides that pakora is a healthy food or a junk food.

If you are frying them in oil then yes it is a junk food.

But if you bake them instead of frying then it will be less oily and also good for health.

What is the difference between pakora and samosa?

Main difference between pakora and samosa is their ingredients.

Main ingredient of pakora is besan (Bengal gram flour) and for samosa it is refine wheat flour.

Samosa is made by stuffing inside a maida sheet. On the other hand pakora is made by a batter of some ingredients and besan.

What is the difference between a pakora and a bhaji?

According to my knowledge there is no difference between pakora and bhaji.

They both are made with besan, spices and veggies.

These two words are the two local names of India, but the food is same.