Aloo ke Pakode (Potato Pakode)

Aloo ke Pakode is everybody’s favorite in winters.  They can be quickly made when guests arrive at home or in the evening when kids suddenly feel hungry.

 Ingredients

2 Large potatoes peeled and sliced.

Ingredients for marinating potato slices

Salt to taste

¼ teaspoon black pepper powder

½ teaspoon chat masala

1 teaspoon lemon juice

Mix all these ingredients.

Coat these ingredients onto the potato slices and keep them aside.

Ingredients for batter

1 cup Besan (chickpea flour/Bengal gram flour)

1” finely chopped ginger
1 finely chopped green chili

1 tablespoon finely chopped coriander leaves

½ teaspoon red chilli powder

½ teaspoon coriander powder

½ teaspoon fennel seed (saunf) powder

Salt to taste

Oil for frying

Method

In a pan take the besan and add ginger, coriander leaves, red chilli powder, green chili, coriander powder, fennel seed powder and salt to it.

Make smooth batter by adding water out of the besan. It should be of pouring consistency.

Keep it aside.

Heat oil in a Kadhai or wok.

Put the marinated potato slices into the besan batter and apply the batter all over it.

Fry them in hot oil from both sides.

Serve while hot with tomato ketchup or green chutney (recipe for this can be found here : Green Chutney).