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Published: Nov 13, 2013 · Modified: Sep 27, 2020 by Sandhya Ramakrishnan · This post may contain affiliate links

Pakoda | Pakora | Onion Pakora Recipe

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Onion pakora is a popular tea time snack made by deep-frying onion slices in a gluten-free and vegan chickpea flour batter. These snacks can be an entire cuisine category on their own.

Onion Pakora with tamarind and mint chutney

After a crazy busy day today, I came home to find that I had nothing made for dinner and also had to make something for the last of BM. I had my day planned out differently and it turned out quite different.

I was going to be baking something for the BM and I had everything lined up only to find that I had no flour in the house. I had an appointment soon and had no time to run to the store, so I had to cancel my plan and think of something else to make.

I came back home much later than I expected and had only about 45 minutes before I had to run out again on my evening rounds with my boys. So I decided to make this quick pakora from the famous Mallika Badrinath’s - Snack’s special book.

This pakora was a life saver as it filled up my kid for his evening run and I was also able to leave some for my husband to eat once he got back from work. The pakoras took me only about 20 minutes to make from start to finish. So here it goes as my last day post for Evening snacks category. The pakoras were sweet and spicy and I served it with some green chutney and sweet chutney.

Preparation time – 5 mins
Cooking time – 20 mins
Difficulty level - easy

Ingredients to make Pakoda – Serves 4 as snack

  • Kadalai maavu/besan/chick pea flour- 1 cup
  • Rice flour – ½ cup
  • Onion – 1 large (finely chopped)
  • Green chilies – 2 (thinly cut)
  • Ghee – 2 tsp
  • Baking soda – a pinch
  • Salt – to taste
  • Red chili powder – 1 tsp
  • Oil – to deep fry
  • Cilantro – few (finely chopped)

Procedure –

  • In a wide bowl, add the baking soda to 2 tsp of ghee. Using your fingers rub the soda in the ghee until it turns white and frothy.
Frothy Pakora batter
  • In another bowl, mix the flours, red chili powder and salt. Add this to the ghee mixture and mix well. Now add the finely chopped onions, green chilies and cilantro and mix well.
  • Use very little water and make thick dough. The dough should be pretty crumbly and should break apart easily and when dropping in oil.
Crumbly Pakora Dough
  • Meanwhile heat the oil for deep frying. Now take a handful of the dough and crumble it into the hot oil.
Frying Pakoda
  • Fry until golden brown and then drain on paper towel lined bowl.
  • Serve the Pakoda hot with ketchup or sweet chutney!
Pakoda - Final image

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Pakoda

Pakoda| Pakora | Onion Pakora Recipe

Onion pakora is a popular tea time snack made by deep-frying onion slices in a gluten-free and vegan chickpea flour batter. There is no dearth of tea time snacks in Indian cuisine. These snacks can be an entire cuisine category on their own.
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Course: Snack
Cuisine: Indian, South Indian
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Total Time: 25 minutes
Servings: 4 people
Calories: 482kcal
Author: Sandhya Ramakrishnan

Ingredients

  • 1 cup Kadalai maavu/besan/chick pea flour
  • ½ cup Rice flour
  • 1 large Onion finely chopped
  • 2 Green chilies thinly cut
  • 2 tsp Ghee
  • a pinch Baking soda
  • Salt to taste
  • 1 tsp Red chili powder
  • 0.5 cup Oil to deep fry
  • few Cilantro finely chopped

Instructions

  • In a wide bowl, add the baking soda to 2 tsp of ghee. Using your fingers rub the soda in the ghee until it turns white and frothy.
  • In another bowl, mix the flours, red chili powder and salt. Add this to the ghee mixture and mix well. Now add the finely chopped onions, green chilies and cilantro and mix well.
  • Use very little water and make thick dough. The dough should be pretty crumbly and should break apart easily and when dropping in oil.
  • Meanwhile heat the oil for deep frying. Now take a handful of the dough and crumble it into the hot oil.
  • Fry until golden brown and then drain on paper towel lined bowl.
  • Serve the Pakoda hot with ketchup or sweet chutney!

Nutrition

Calories: 482kcal | Carbohydrates: 39g | Protein: 8g | Fat: 33g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Cholesterol: 6mg | Sodium: 107mg | Potassium: 337mg | Fiber: 5g | Sugar: 6g | Vitamin A: 200IU | Vitamin C: 5mg | Calcium: 22mg | Iron: 2mg
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  1. Harini-Jaya R says

    November 19, 2013 at 9:12 pm

    My family fav pakodas..never added soda though!

    Reply
  2. Pavani N says

    November 18, 2013 at 6:25 pm

    Those pakoras look so crispy and crunchy.

    Reply
  3. Rajani S says

    November 14, 2013 at 7:06 am

    Who can say 'no' to pakodas?! Super!

    Reply
  4. Yes Cook says

    November 13, 2013 at 7:22 pm

    Very crispy and delicious pakodas.
    Thanks for sharing.

    Reply
  5. Chef Mireille says

    November 13, 2013 at 8:40 pm

    easy and quick snack

    Reply
  6. Manjula Bharath says

    November 13, 2013 at 2:25 pm

    perfect evening snack 🙂 onion pakoda looks super crispy and delicious!!

    Reply
  7. Arthy shama says

    November 13, 2013 at 9:47 am

    Lovley pakoras, would go great with hot cup of tea 🙂

    Reply
  8. Nalini's Kitchen says

    November 13, 2013 at 2:26 pm

    Crispy crunchy pakodas,looks tempting..

    Reply
  9. Priya Suresh says

    November 13, 2013 at 12:22 pm

    Very addictive pakoras, i can have a plate anytime..

    Reply
  10. Razina Javed says

    November 13, 2013 at 4:53 am

    Nice n crispy....

    Reply
  11. Nivedhanams Sowmya says

    November 13, 2013 at 4:48 am

    crunchy and delicious!!! love the last picture.. so professionally designed!!

    Reply
  12. Sapana Behl says

    November 13, 2013 at 8:30 am

    I love onion pakoras...those looks so crispy and yum . Perfect snack ....

    Reply
  13. Srivalli says

    November 13, 2013 at 7:54 am

    Its good that you managed to make something and yes the final dish lived up much better..:)..very inviting snack..

    Reply

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