Cookery

Cooking for Love

Bread Pakoda

Posted by Kshitij on August 14, 2007

Serves: 5 (2 pakoda’s each) Time: 45mins approx.
Ingredients
  • 5 Potatoes. (Boiled & Peeled)
  • 2 cups Gram flour. (Besan)
  • 20 Bread slices.
  • 5 Green chilies. (Finely chopped)

  • 1/2 cup Coriander leaves. (Finely chopped)
  • 1 tsp Red chili powder.
  • 3 cups Oil. (For frying)
  • Salt. (As per taste)
  • Procedure
    1. Take the boiled and peeled potatoes and mash them until they form a paste. (DON’T ADD WATER)
    2. Add green chillies, salt and chopped coriander leaves into it. Mix it thoroughly and roll the mixture into 10 small sized balls.
    3. Now, in another bowl add gram flour, red chili powder and salt.
    4. Add water gradually and keep mixing it thoroughly until a smooth batter is formed, not too watery and not too thick.
    5. Now, remove the bread’s crust and then cut the bread slice diagonally giving two triangular shapes.
    6. Stuff 1 ball of mixture between the two parts of each bread slice. Similarly do it for remaining 9 balls.
    7. Heat oil in the kadhai for frying. (On a medium flame)
    8. Dip each stuffed bread in the batter and deep fry in the oil until golden brown.
    9. Remove them on a Kitchen paper or a tissue paper in order to soak excess oil.
    10. Serve hot with chutney or sauce accompanied with some hot beverage like Tea(chai) or Coffee.

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