कुरकुरीत पालक पकोडा | Crispy Palak Pakoda | Street Style Palak Pakoda | MadhurasRecipe | Ep - 428

Ingredients:

• Half bunch of Palak / Spinach

• 1 cup Besan

• 2~3 tsp Rice flour

• Chopped green chilies

• Salt to taste

• 1/4 tsp Ajwain / Carom seeds

• Red chili powder to taste

• 1/4 tsp Turmeric powder

• A pinch of Baking soda

• Oil for frying

Method:

• Pluck off the palak leaves and wash then really good. • Cut each leaf into 2-3 pieces. Do not cut the leaves finely.

• Add besan, rice flour, green chilies, salt, ajwain, red chili powder, turmeric powder, baking soda and mix everything well with palak.

• You can blend the rice in mixer and use that flour instead of rice flour.

• Mash the palak leaves a little while mixing.

• This helps the palak leaves in releasing the moisture in them.

• Add a little water and make dry or thick batter like kanda bhaji or khekada bhaji.

• The batter should not be thin at all.

• Heat up oil in a pan.

• When the oil is enough hot separate the batter and drop it in oil.

• After frying the bhaji for about 3-4 minutes from one side flip them over and fry well from other side too. • Take the bhaji out into a dish and palak bhaji are already.

• You can serve the palak bhaji with sauce, green chutney, mint chutney or as it is.