Palak Pakoda Recipe | Spinach Fritters Recipe

Posted on Dec 8th, 2016

by Sowmya Venkatachalam

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Palak Pakoda (Spinach Fritters), Easy Indian Snack, a perfect tea time snack. Palak Pakoda, made of healthy greens like Spinach, mint & coriander leaves along with besan, rice flour and spices. A crunchy and tasty evening snack. Palak Pakoda is one way of making our kids to eat the greens. Sometimes we carve to eat something crunchy but we look of easier and quicker snack.

Palak Pakoda Recipe | Spinach Fritters Recipe

Preparation and Yield:

Preparation time	10 mins
Cooking Time	30 mins
Servings	4
Recipe Category	Snack
Recipe Cuisine	South Indian

Palak Pakoda Recipe | Spinach Fritters Recipe

Ingredients:

Palak / Spinach	2 Cups*
Mint Leaves	10
Coriander Leaves	1/4 Cup
Onion	1, Thinly Sliced
Gram Flour / Besan	1.5 Cups
Rice Flour	1/2 Cup
Red Chilli Powder	1/2 teaspoon
Cumin Powder	1/2 teaspoon
Green Chilli	2, Finely Chopped
Ghee	2 teaspoon
Salt	To taste
Oik	For Deep Frying

* 1 Cup = 250ml

Palak Pakoda Recipe | Spinach Fritters Recipe

Method:

Roughly Chop Spinach, mint leaves and coriander leaves and set it aside. In a mixing bowl, add gram flour, rice flour, green chili, red chili powder, cumin powder, ghee and salt and combine well. Add water little by little and make it to a thick batter. As we are adding onions, the pakoda batter eventually gets little thinner so do not add more water
Now, add palak, mint and coriander leaves along with onion and coat the greens and onions with the batter. If the batter is very thick, sprinkle little water and make sure it coats nicely with the greens and onions
Heat oil in a pan for deep frying the pakoda. Gently drop roughly shaped balls out of the pakoda mixture into the oil. Deep fry the pakodas till they are golden brown and also all the bubble ceases and the pakoda becomes crispy. Take out and place it in a paper towel to drain excess oil
Serve the crispy and tasty Palak Pakoda (Spinach Fritters) with hot tea / coffee !