Bread Pakora (Pakoda) Recipe

Bread Pakoras

How To Make Bread Pakora (Pakoda):

• Boil 2 large Potatoes. Once it cools down peel, mash and keep aside.
• Clean, wash and chop fresh coriander leaves.
• Chop 2-3 green chillies. Crush 3-4 garlic cloves.
• For potato masala heat 2-3 tablespoon oil in kadhai.
• Put cumin seeds or mustard seeds. Once it starts spluttering add crushed garlic and cook till it turns light brown.
• Now add green chillies and cook slightly.
• Put mashed potatoes in it and mix.
• Put turmeric powder, coriander powder, red chilly powder and garam masala.
• Put salt, chopped coriander leaves and some oil if required and stir properly.
• Switch off the flame. Bread pakora masala is ready.
• Now its time to prepare besan (gram flour) batter.
• In a vessel take around 150 gms besan and add water gradually and mix in order to make medium batter consistency. It should not be too thick nor too thin.
• Now take 4-5 bread slices and cut it in triangle shapes. Put potato masala on each bread pieces. Now place one bread slice on top of other and keep aside in a plate.
• Heat sufficient oil in kadhai for frying bread pakoras (pakodas).
• Take stuffed bread slices one by one dip in besan batter such that batter coats bread properly from all the sides. Do it carefully to avoid breaking of bread.
• Put it slowly in oil. Again be very careful while inserting coated potato stuffed bread in oil.
• Don’t drop it from top else hot oil will pop out and can cause burning.
• Fry bread pakoras from both the sides.
• Don’t keep flame high because bread pakoras or besan gets cooked in less time. If flame is high there are chances of burning bread.
• As soon as you are done with all Bread pakoras switch of the flame.
• These bread pakoras goes very well with green dhaniya tamatar chutney and dry coconut garlic chutney.