Sunday, July 13, 2008

Spinach Pakodas

Ingredients:
Chopped Palak (Spinach) 1 cup
Besan (chana/gram flour) 1cup
Rice flour 1/2 cup
Green Chilli-2 chopped
Salt to taste
Chilli powder- 1 tsp

Oil To fry

Method

1. Wash palak, drain water and chop coarsely.

2. Boil spinach. When cooked drain throughly and grind.

3. Add besan and rice flour, green chillies, redchilli powder&salt.

4.Mix well in cooked spinach and make small balls of the mixture.

5.No water to be added at all since the batter can be mixed in the juice of palak itself.

6.Make small flat vadas out of this dough and fry them in oil on medium heat.

7.Till the pakodas are of light brown colour.

8.Make vadas flat so that they are crispy and fried inside out

9.Palak pakodas are delicious and can be eaten plain or with tomato sauce