VEGETABLE PAKORAS

INGREDIENTS

• 300g Chickpea flour (Gram flour)
• 1 Cauliflower, broccoli or sprouts, grated
• 100g French beans, snap peas, Chopped
• 1 Courgette, grated
• 1 Red onion, finely diced
• ½ pkt Baby spinach, shredded
• ½ bunch Coriander leaves, shredded
• 1 Green chilli, finely diced
• 1 tsp Chilli powder
• 1 tsp Ground cumin
• ½ tsp Ground coriander
• 1 tsp Tandoori masala powder
• Salt and pepper
• Oil for deep frying

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Place all the prepared vegetables and herbs into a large bowl.
2. Add all the spices, salt and pepper.
3. Next add about 200ml of cold water to the bowl.
4. With your hand start mixing the water vegetables and spices.
5. Now gradually start adding the gram flour.
6. Fundamentally you are trying to achieve a consistency that is sticky and moist. It is not like a batter it’s much more like a paste. Add more chickpea flour if needed.
7. To cook the pakora you will need your oil to be about 165°C this is a much slower style of deep frying as you need to cook the vegetables and the gram flour.
8. To cook you will need a little bowl of water nearby, using your wet hands, take a golf ball amount of mix and flatten it out and carefully place into the hot oil.
9. Do this until all the mix has been through the oil.
10. You can pre-do this stage and warm the pakoras through a hot oven when you need them.
11. When ready to serve top with a little sliced red onion and a dusting of garam masala.