Pakora

[Davy]

Hi ,
Anyone made any headway with Pakora?? I could never get that BIR finish on mine until I started using cornflour and yoghurt in my recipe as well as garam flour. Anyone manager to get it bang on? I need to do a further bit of experimenting with mine as the last batch was a bit rushed. I am renovating my kitchen just now. I will post a recipe once I have a result closer to what I would expect.

[CHEFFESS2002]

Pakora   
(25g= 1 tablspoon)

Ingredients

150g       Chick Pea Flour (Gram Flour)
150g      Self Raising Flour
5g      Chilli Powder   
5g      Turmeric
5g      Garam Masala
85g      Natural Yoghurt
?      Juice of lemon
1      Large Onion
2      Large Potatoes or any veg or Chicken that you choose

Method

1.   Place the vegetables in the bottom of the bowl.
2.   Sieve the gram flour then the self-raising of the veg.
3.   Add the spices, salt and pepper followed by the yoghurt and lemon.
4.   Combine the mix using your fingers.
5.   Gently drop spoonfuls in to hot fat and allow cooking until golden brown.
Dip
Ingredients

100g         Tomato Ketchup
8g         Mint Sauce
200g         Natural Yoghurt
2g         Red Food Colouring
Pinch of Salt
Pinch Chilli Powder
Milk if needed

Method

Mix altogether; add milk and thin to a paste consistency.

This dip is the key to enlightening the Pakora!
;D

[Bobby Bhuna]

I\ve just bought a box of Pakora Masala and a box of pakora batter mix. I\ll try both and report back.

[langy]

Hi Guys,

Im just new to this site and have a couple of years experience cooking curries but my speciality is veg pakora.

I'll trade this for the best curry base recipe you can recommend on this site

2-3 Maris Piper potatos, cubed into 10mm or smaller size parbolied
1/2 Green Pepper very finely chopped
2-3 green chillis again very finely sliced seeds removed!
6 cloves garlic very finely sliced
4-5 tblspoons of corriander seed
4-5 tblspoons of cumin seed
Salt to taste, fry one first to taste and add more to get it to your preference
Freshly ground black pepper
1 tbspoon corriander powder
1 tbspoon cumin powder
1/4 tsp bicarbonate of soda
Juice of half a lime
Gram Flour sieved
1 tsp Garam Masala
bunch of fresh roughly chopped corriander
chilli powder - 1/2 tsp or more if you like
2 large onions chopped to suit not too fine
asofieda power 1/4 tsp
Dried methi powder/dried methi leaves - I tend to use this sometimes you can remove this if you like, also, sometimes i chuck in some finely chopped spinach which works well

Mix all of this together into a consistency with Lager, yes i know your laughing but i use Lager as a substitute to water and it really works, after all you get beer battered fish, why not pakora?  mix it well so that it drops off a spoon not too wet once you master it its shooty in

Sauce
Half an Onion
4 fresh tomatoes, skinned
chilli powder how much you like
salt not too much keep tasting to get it right
tomato ketchup
Blend all to a fine liquid, dunk and enjoy

Let me know how you get on, oh and any good curry base links would be good, cheers guys

[frothy]

when we go to glasgow to see our daughter we go to a place called the wee curry shop,they do a haggis pakora really tasty anybody got a recipe ?

[CurryOnRegardless]

Haggis pakora, now that's got me thinking. How about black pudding pakoras?
Waddya think guys?

Regards
CoR