- Servings: 4
- Boiling time:10 minutes.
- Preparation time: 6 minutes.
- Frying time:5-6 minutes.
- Total time: 22 minutes.
By habit Indians love to eat fried, chicken pakoda/fritters is one of them. You get the wafting aroma of chicken; in fact it has amazing taste and nutritive value. Pakoda/fritters loved by all. Contains all the nutrients that make strong body, like protein, calcium, iron etc….
Ingredient:
- Chicken (breast):200 gm.
- Ginger: 2-3 “piece
- Garlic: 3-4 flakes
- Salt: 1 teaspoon
- Ajwain (carom seeds): ¼ teaspoon
- Besan (gram flour): 1 cup
- Garam masala: ½ teaspoon
- Water: 1 cup
- Mustard oil: for deep fry
- Meetha soda (Soda bicarb): 1 pinch
Preparation:
- Grind ginger and garlic; make fine paste, Keep aside.
- Boil the chicken, along with ½ teaspoon of salt and bay leaf. Keep aside.
- Take a bowl. Put Besan, salt, Ajwain, ginger garlic paste, Garam masala and Meetha soda in it.
- Make a smooth batter with the help of water.
Method:
- Take fry pan, heat oil in it.
- Let oil to smoke. Pour a drop of batter into the oil; if batter comes up, it means right temperature of oil otherwise wait for a while and test again.
- After getting right temperature of oil, dip the boiled chicken piece into batter. (Either direct by hand or spoon)
- Deep fry on medium flame all chicken pieces, when they start to come up slowly turn over(about 2-3 minutes each side).
- Fry on medium until it becomes golden brown on both sides (about 4-5 minutes each batch).
- Serve hot Chicken pakoda/fritters with onion slices and tomato sauce.
Chicken pakora/fritters by Nag Ratna Sahu is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.