Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Cabbage Pakoras - Crispy and Spicy fritters

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I love fresh vegetables and I go the extra mile in stocking up my fridge with these whenever I see them. I intend to cook regularly and include as much as fresh vegetables in our daily diet.

But life's pressures dont really let us do what we want to do when we want to do. So, we have been eating less vegetables and more junk recently. Today, I decided to clean my fridge and use up the poor veggies before they go bad.


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Out popped this cabbage. I love cabbage and I love Pakoras, so I decided to put them together in this delicious snack. It was just what was needed for the winter evening with a hot cup of tea!


The recipe is so simple and can be made in less than 30 mins. A perfect snack when you have unexpected guests or unexpected cravings!

Ingredients:

2 cups shredded/finely chopped cabbage
1 onion finely chopped
1 1/2 cup besan/chickpea flour
1/4 cup rice flour (the secret for the crispiness!)
1/4 tsp red chilli powder
2 green chillies finely chopped
1/2 tsp crushed ginger
a big pinch of hing/aesafoitida
a few chopped coriander leaves
salt to taste
Oil for deep frying

Recipe:

In a mixing bowl, mix together the chopped cabbage and onion along with besan flour, rice flour.
Add about 3-4 tbsp water and mix well

To this add the rest of the ingredients: green chillies, ginger, salt, red chilli powder, hing and coriander leaves.

Mix well. The batter will be thick with besan barely coating the cabbage.

Take a spoonful of the batter, flatten with fingers and drop in hot oil.

Fry till light brown and crisp.

Serve hot with ketchup or chutney/dip of your choice.

Yields: about 20 pieces of pakoras
Time Required: 30 mins

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Sending this to "Deep Fried Snacks" hosted by Radhika.


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9 comments:

Malar Gandhi said...

Yep, me too take special trip to procure fresh vegetables...its worthy. Lovely pakoras...perfect evening snack.

Deepa said...

perfect tea time snack during the rains..but i would love it anytime of the day and no season bar..LOL..looks so delicious..

kitchen queen said...

such crispy and yummy pakodas.

swapna said...

Crunchy and yummy snack...lovely clicks!!

Sharmi said...

pakodas and the pongal looks yum!
for a minute I thought I was in a new blog until I read about ur new domain:) Congrats!

Kay said...

Thank you all:)

Sharmi, I think many will end up thinking the same too. Hope I dont lose my readers:)

Sanjeeta kk said...

Nice way to enjoy cabbage! Good to be here.

Krithi's Kitchen said...

Scrumptious and yummy.. Awesome clicks!

http://krithiskitchen.blogspot.com

Now Serving said...

hey what a coincidence! I too blogged cabbage (brussel sprouts bhajjs recently) Your pakodas looks SO crispy, yummy and am totally was that plate of it :)