Crispy Onion Pakoras

 بسم اللہ الرحمٰن الرحیم

السلام و علیکم ورحمتہ اللہ وبرکاتہ

INGREDIENTS:-

4    medium small onion

2 or 3  green chilies

1/2 tbsp  crushed coriander seeds

5 tbsp heaped   gram flour

2 tbsp heaped  rice flour

1/3 cup  chopped fresh coriander

Salt   to taste

Crushed red chillies   to taste

1/4tsp   turmeric

Oil   for frying

METHOD:-

Peels and thinly slice onions because thicker slices don't fried well so keep in mind slice thinly. Put onion slices in the colander, wash them and separate the layers. Now leave them for 20 to 25 minutes. So that all the water drains out completely.

Now add crushed coriander seeds (you can also add carom seeds and cunim seeds. But i personaly don't think that cumin seeds gose well with any kind of pakoras. Carom seeds add good flavour to pakoras but at the moment i just couldn't bear it. So i'm skipping these two seeds. But if you want to add them by all your choice) and chopped green chilies to same bowl.

Add chopped fresh coriander leaves to the same bowl.

Now add all the spices mentioned above, like crushed red chilli, salt and turmeric.

Add rice flour to the bowl. Rice flour gives nice crunch to our pakoras. If you don't have rice flour you can substitute with semolina or cornflour.

Add good quality gram flour to the same mixing bowl.

Mix everything well (with clean hands) to coat the onions with flour. The mixture will be dry at this moment. But no need to worry...

Keep mixing it because onion would release the moisture in the end that will help to mix  better. You can add more or less gram flour if you like. I put small amount of flour, just to bind all the ingredients together. More flour would make your pakoras soft and less will make your pakoras crispy.

Heat oil in a karahi on medium heat. You can deep fry or shallow fry onion pakoras. I'm going to shallow fry them. It totally up to you what method would you prefer or you can either bake them. When oil is hot enough, take a small amount of onion pakora mixture with your fingers and slide them gentle in the hot oil.

Fry onion pakoras till they turn crispy and golden. Stir and flip them occasionally for even frying. Once they are nicely crispy and golden brown take them out carefully on kitchen paper so all the excess oil drains out before serving.

Continue to make more onion pakoras in batches with the rest of the mixture. Our crispy Onion pakoras are ready to serve. I am going to serve them with white doner sauce instead of green chatni or raita. Inshallah i will post this sauce recipe as soon as possible. Hope you like my recipe of onion pakoras.