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Aloo Pakora Recipe | Potato Bajji | Aloo Bajji
Prep Time
10 mins
Cook Time
20 mins
Total Time
30 mins
 

Aloo Pakora Recipe or Potato Bajji is one of the famous street foods in South India.

Course: Snack
Cuisine: Andhra, Indian
Keyword: Aloo Bajji, Aloo Pakora Recipe, Potato Bajji
Servings: 4
Calories: 479 kcal
Author: Uppada Lakshmi
Ingredients
  • Potatoes – 250 grams
  • Salt – 1½ tbsp.
  • Water – required quantity
  • Chana dal powder/ besan flour – 1 cup
  • Rice flour – 2 tbsp.
  • Red chilli powder – ½ tbsp.
  • Turmeric powder – ½ tbsp.
  • Thymol seeds/ Vamu/ Ajwain – ½ tbsp.
  • Ginger garlic paste – ½ tbsp.
  • Oil – required to deep fry
Instructions
  1. Peel the skin of potatoes and cut them into thin slices.
Tip: Not thin wafers as potato chips but maintain mild thickness so that they don’t break when coated with batter.
  1. In a small bowl, add water and drop 1 tbsp. salt.
  2. Add these slices into salt water so that it locks starch and keeps potatoes being getting coloured.
  3. In another bowl, add besan flour, rice flour, turmeric powder, red chilli powder, salt, ginger garlic paste and crushed thymol seeds.
  4. Add required quantity of water and mix well so that you get thick consistency batter.
Note: Maintain thick consistency so that batter sticks to potato slices.
Tip: If batter becomes thin, add little rice flour but make sure ratio of besan flour is more than that of rice flour.
  1. After 10-15 minutes, remove aloo slices from salt water and dry them in a clean cloth.
  2. Add these slices in batter.
  3. On another side, heat oil and check whether oil is ready to fry by dropping a small lump of batter.
  4. If batter floats on oil, then oil is ready to deep fry.
  5. Add aloo slices in a batch and deep fry.
Tip: Do not put oil till the brim of the pan, as there is a chance to catch fire or overflow after dropping aloo pakora.
  1. Cook them till they turn to golden brown by flipping them.
  2. Serve Aloo Pakora Recipe or Potato Bajji Recipe hot with tomato ketchup.

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