*Nutrition information is a rough estimate for 1 serving
Ingredients
For Pakora
- ¼ cup Besan (gram flour)
- a pinch Baking soda
- ¼ cup Onion finely chopped
- 1 small Green chili finely chopped
- ¼ inch Ginger grated or paste
- Salt to taste
- 3 tablespoons Water
- Oil for deep frying pakora
For Punjabi kadhi
- ¾ cup Plain yogurt (dahi or curd), Sour
- 1 tablespoon Besan (gram flour)
- Salt to taste
- ¼ teaspoon Turmeric powder
- 1 ½ cups Water
- 1 tablespoon Oil mustard oil
- ¼ teaspoon Cumin seeds
- ⅛ teaspoon Coriander seeds (sabutdhaniya)
- ⅛ teaspoon Fenugreek seeds (methi dana)
- 1 Dried red chilies
- A pinch MAC Asafoetida
For Tempering
- 1 ½ teaspoons Ghee (Clarified butter)
- ½ to 1 teaspoon Red chili powder
Instructions
Making pakora
- Mix besan, baking soda, onion, green chili, ginger and salt in a bowl.
- Add water and make thick batter.
- Meanwhile heat the oil for deep frying on medium heat.
- Once oil is hot drop spoonful of batter into hot oil. You can use your hand or spoon.
- Fry till it becomes golden brown. Keep moving them so it gets cooked and browned evenly.
- Remove it to a paper towel lined plate and keep it aside.
Making punjabikadhi pakora
- Mix yogurt, besan, salt and turmeric powder in a bowl. Make sure there are no lumps of besan. You can use hand blender or wire whisk.
- Add little water at a time and keep whisking to make lump free batter.
- Heat oil in a pan on medium heat. Once hot add cumin seeds and let them sizzle.
- Then add coriander seeds and methi seeds. Let them fry for few seconds. You will get nice aroma of it.
- Then add dried red chili.
- Mix in prepared yogurt-besan mixture. Bring it to a boil and let it simmer on low-medium heat. It will start to thicken up.
Making tempering
- While it is simmering, on another stove heat the ghee in a small pan on medium heat.
- Once hot turn off the stove, add red chili powder and immediately add tadka to the simmering kadhi.
- Stir it well.
- Add fried pakora and let it simmer for 5-7 minutes so pakora gets soft and soak up flavors.
- If kadhi gets too thick then add some water to make desire consistency.