Pakoras are served as a snack or appetizers. There's nothing which can compare to crispy hot Pokaras with a cup of steaming hot tea or coffee. Pakoras are basically vegetables, bread, paneer or even chicken dipped in a batter of gram flour and deep fried. This is what I made last evening for my tea time snack. I made Escarole Pakodas.
Now before you start thinking, whats up with this girl..she's obsessed with all the green vegetables. Yes I did post a recipe on
Escarole Wali Dal and
Vegetable Farfalle with Spinach and now Escarole Pakoras. But let me explain my situation. I guess I've figured it out. Whenever I go to the farmers market for my vegetable shopping I end up with way TOO much. Its like a kid lost in a candy store. Seeing so many fresh vegetables and fruits around you, I just get carried away. End result so many vegetables and with just 4 members in my family..do you think we'll be able to do justice to these poor vegetables..so thats whats been happening. I guess now when I go next time..I'll just be a littler more in check... So guys this is the last of the Escarole I had..so made these cripsy Pakoras/Fritters which I tried for the very first time and they turned out good as my kids and DH finished them all...Good thing I took some clicks just before I served them... LOL.
Ingredients :
- 2 cups chopped Escarole
- 1 1/2 cups gram flour/Besan/Chickpea flour
- 2 green chillies finely chopped
- 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
- 1 tsp red chili powder
- 1/2 tsp amchur/dry mango powder
- salt to taste
- water
- oil for deep frying
Preparation :
- Mix the gram flour, turmeric powder, red chili powder , amchur powder and salt with little water to make a thick batter. Mix it well and make sure there are no lumps.
- Now add the chopped Escarole and green chillies and mix it well and make sure the batter is still of thick consistency. (Now at this step, you could add a little water if its too thick to make the pakoras or add a little flour if the batter is too thin. It shoud be of a spoon drop consistency).
- Now's the fun part...Carefully scoop the batter with your hand and gently drop them into the hot oil. You could even use a spoon to do this. Take a spoon full and gently drop them. Deep fry the Pakoras in hot oil on a medium flame till golden brown in color.
- They are ready to serve with green chutney or ketchup and a hot cup of tea.
- This recipe yields 16-20 Escarole Pakoras/Fritters which could serve 4 .
I'm really enjoying myself at my cake decorating class. This was our course 2 finale cake. I baked a chocolate cake and have used chocolate buttercream icing. I have decorated it with royal icing flowers. This was my first time trying out the basket weave(on the side of the cake) and it really was fun..a bit time consuming though. Presenting you all my wonderful readers this basket of flowers and I hope you enjoy it... (Also trying to make up for not being able to visit you all...Its almost the end of my son's school year so was busy in a lot of year end school activities...Will soon be able to get some time Hopefully...) 
