Potato Fritters ( Aloo ke pakode ) Instant Tea Time Snacks

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Namaskar...

I am Sangeeta Agarwal and heartily welcome you at my food blog.

#  "Potato fritters" ( Aloo ke pakode ) is a very easy, comfortable and delicious snack. It is the most favourite "Tea Time Snack" during the rainy season.

Potato is that veggie which almost all people like it in any form....like potato chips, Parantha, pakoda, sandwich, Pettis, halwa,  tikki,  cheela , Curry and many more.
You can call it the king of all veggies.

You can make these potato fritters more interesting by adding some secret ingredients.

If you want to make it more crispy and fluffy too...Then add some rice flour or corn flour with a pinch of baking powder and soda both in the batter.

If you want to make it soft... specially for children, then add Two spoon curd in the batter of pakoda with a pinch of baking soda only.

# Prep Time...5 minutes
# cook Time....8 or 10 minutes in 1 batch
# Serving...3 or 4

# Ingredients For Potato Pakoda

1. Potato...250 gram ( 4 or 5 )
2. Gram flour.....200 gram
3. Salt to taste or...1 Tea spoon
4. Pinch of asafoetida
5. Crushed Ajwain..1/4 Tea spoon ( optional )
6. Red chili powder...1/2 Tea spoon
7. Chopped onion...1 ( optional )
8. Chopped Green chillies...2
9. Chopped fresh cilantro...1Table spoon
10. Rice flour or corn flour...2 Table spoon
11. Baking soda...1 pinch
12. Baking powder...2 pinch
13. Water as needed or 170 ml.
14. Oil for frying pakoda

#  Method Of Making..

1. Firstly wash the potatoes well.
Then cut it into thin slices and put them in the water so that they couldn't turn the colour.

2 Then wash them again for 2 or 3 times more and finely dip in the water with some salt...so that potato chips would be salty in the inner side.

3. Meanwhile prepare the batter of pakoda.
Just add all the ingredients in the gram flour like salt, ajwain, red chili powder, turmeric powder, asafoetida, rice flour and mix well .

4.Now add some water in the gram flour to make a thick  pouring consistency batter and beat well and keep aside.

5. Then place the soaked potato chips in a strainer so that extra water could come out.

6. Heat a wok with oil on the medium high flame. As the oil heats up, beat the batter again and add a  pinch of baking soda and powder both and mix well.

7. Now take some potato slices from the strainer, wrap in the batter of pakoda and leave them in the hot oil one by one.

8. As the Fritters become light brown from the bottom, just flip them on the other side for frying.
At this stage flame is high so that it could not absorb much oil.

9. As the Fritters become golden brown on the both sides, then fry them on the medium low flame for 3 or 4 minutes.

Now potato pakode are done.

Take out them on a napkin paper.

In this way... Delicious and instant potato pakode are ready to enjoy.

Serve them hot with chutney, sauce and tea.

#  Note

1. After slicing the potatoes...soak them in the water so that they could not turn black.

2. Don't add more baking soda or powder, other wise Fritters can absorb the oil.

3. If you don't want to add baking soda in the batter...Then beat the batter 3 minutes more.
It will help in making the pakode fluffy.

4. If you want to make the pakode soft and fluffy, then add 2 Table spoon curd in the batter in place of rice flour.

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