Leftover Rice Pakoda
Rice pakoda, a crispy deep-fried snack made with leftover rice. Leftover cooked rice is mixed with besan, onions and spices and deep-fried for a delicious snack.
Servings 3
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Ingredients
- 1 cup leftover cooked rice
- 2-3 tablespoon besan chickpea flour
- 1 no medium sized onion thinly sliced
- 1 no green chili finely chopped
- small piece ginger minced
- 1 tsp red chili and coriander powder i have equal amounts of chili and coriander powdered together
- ¼ teaspoon cumin seeds freshly pounded
- ¼ teaspoon ajwain seeds pounded
- ¼ teaspoon garam masala
- 2-3 tablespoon water
- ¼ cup fresh coriander leaves finely chopped
- ¾ teaspoon salt or to taste
- oil for deep frying
Instructions
- In a wide bowl, take the leftover rice, add besan to this, add chopped onions, green chili, ginger, curry leaves and chopped coriander leaves. Mix this well.
- Add the spice powders one by one, red chili and coriander powder, cumin powder, garam masala powder, ajwain powder and salt. Mix well together
- Sprinkle 2-3 tablespoon of water to this and mix well to get a bindable mixture. When you press the mix, you should be able form a shape
- Next step is frying, heat oil in a frying pan, when it is hot enough, pinch small balls out the rice mixture and drop it into the hot oil.
- Deep fry them to golden brown and crisp. Drain on a paper towel. Serve it hot with a cup of hot chai.
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Notes
- I have a equal amounts of red chilies and corinader measured and powdered together, i have used this powder to spice the pakora
- You can use ½ teaspoon each of coriander and red chili powder in place of that.