Pakora is a spiced fritter from the Indian subcontinent that is sold on the street and served in restaurants throughout South Asia and the world. It comprises of deep-fried ingredients, usually vegetables like potatoes and onions, coated in seasoned gram flour batter. The pakora is known also under other spellings including pakoda.
North Indian cuisines paneer pakora is a favourite evening snack. It’s produced by frying Indian cottage cheese, or paneer, in a batter. These are wonderful and pleasantly spicy. Green chutney or red chilli chutney are commonly served with paneer pakora.
Paneer slices (or cubes) are coated with the batter of gram flour(besan) and then deep fried until crispy.
These pakoras can be made in two different ways-
1. Without stuffing (Simple)
For simple pakoras, paneer cubes are directly dipped into the gram flour batter and then deep fried.
2.With the stuffing of green chutney (or tomato ketchup or chaat masala powder).
In this recipe, we have made the pakoras with the stuffing of green chutney.
You can make the pakoras either simple or with the stuffing as per your preference.
Both ways they taste delicious with the green chutney.
