Aloo palak ke pakode | Aloo palak lachcha pakode
Crispy aloo palak ke pakode- Easy to make fried potato and spinach fritters
Servings: 5 person
Calories: 172kcal
Ingredients
- 250 gm Spinach /palak
- 2 big Potatoes / Aloo
- 1 tsp Ginger / Adrak chopped
- 3 Green Chillies / Hari Mirch chopped
- 1 tbsp Coriander Seeds / Sabut Dhaniya crushed
- 1 tbsp Chili flakes /Kuti hui laal mirch
- 1/3 tsp Turmeric Powder / Haldi Powder
- to taste Salt / Namak
- 3/4 tsp Cumin Seeds / Sabut Jeera
- 1/4 tsp Carom Seeds / Ajwain
- 1/4 tsp Asafoetida / Hing powder
- few Curry Leaves / Kadi Patta
- 1.5 cup Gram flour / Besan
- 1 cup Water / Paani approx
- pinch Soda bi carbonate
Instructions
- Wash and roughly chop spinach and curry leaves
- Peel the potato and make thin long slices.
- Take a big a bowl and add gram flour, salt ,turmeric,chili powder ,asafoetida, sesame seeds chili flakes ,baking soda and mix.
- Now add water and make a semi thick paste.
- Now add chopped spinach ,potato slices, curry leaves, chopped or sliced green chilis in the gram flour batter and mix well.
- Crush the coriander seeds coarsely in a mortar pestle and then add them along with cumin and ajwain in the batter and mix well.
- Heat enough cooking oil in a deep wide pan for frying the pakodas.
- Take around 1 tbsp mixture in your hand and gently drop in the hot oil.
- Cook on medium heat and don't flip and turn them more then 2-3 times.else they may break and absorb too much oil.
- When pakoras become golden and crisp then drain on a paper napkin and sprinkle some chat masala and serve hot
- Serve with few fried green chilies,green chutney and tamarind chutney.
Nutrition
Calories: 172kcal | Carbohydrates: 26g | Protein: 10g | Fat: 3g | Saturated Fat: 0.4g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 182mg | Potassium: 642mg | Fiber: 7g | Sugar: 5g | Vitamin A: 5182IU | Vitamin C: 18mg | Calcium: 87mg | Iron: 4mg