Palak Fritters/Pakoda

Hi!!! Today I am posting a very simple yet tasty recipe. Palak Pakodas or fritters are delicious and crispy snack made from spinach. It is normally had as a tea time snack or served as a starter. It a super easy and yummy recipe as well as quick. If all ingredients are available, then hardly it takes 10 minutes to make it.

All know the health benefits of spinach. It is a powerhouse of iron. Actually my neighbour gave me freshly plucked spinach leaves from their garden this morning. So I thought to make some fritters for evening snack. You can make this fritters two ways. First by dipping whole spinach leaf in batter and frying and second chopping it and mixing in the batter. Here I have posted the second one recipe as I like the chopped spinach leaves in my pakodas. Also it gives you more flavours. I tried to make it more healthy by adding fresh herbs. I have added less gram flour to the recipe to get more flavour of spinach and also to make it more crispy. As I have deep fried it, I have used Rice Bran oil to make it little healthier. I have served it with chilly tomato sauce. You can have it with mint coriander chutney or tamarind sauce. Enjoyyy!!!!!

Preparation Time - 5 mins

Cooking Time - 10 mins

Serves - 4

Ingredients :

Palak or spinch - A small bunch

Besan or gram flour - 1/2 to 3/4 cup

Onion - 1 finely chopped

Ginger - 1 inch grated

Green chillies - 4 nos finely chopped

Red Chilly powder - 1/4 to 1/2 tspn (As per your spice requirement)

Ajwain or carrom seeds - 1 tspn (I have added 1/2 tspn and 4-5 ajwain leaves chopped)

Turmeric - 1/4 tspn

Salt - for taste

Water - as required

Oil - for frying

Method:

1. Wash spinach leaves properly as the tend to have soil in them

2. Chop the finely.

3. Keep oil for heating.

4. In a bowl, add chopped spinach, onion, ginger, green chillies, chilly powder, turmeric,

ajwain and mix properly.

5. Add besan and salt.

6. Add water and mix well.

7. Make sure the gram flour is not excess.

8. Deep fry and serve hot.

Tips:

You can see in the pic above that the leaves are seen. This is because I added less amount of gram flour to make it more crispy and you eat up loads of spinach leaves instead of besan.