Methi Pakoda

Methi Pakoda is a healthy and tasty snack recipe. It is made with methi leaves and gram flour. The steps involved in making this recipe is very straight forward and simple.

Methi Pakoda

Ingredients: Serve - 4

• Methi leaves -  ½ cup
• Gram flour – 1 cup
• Red chilli powder – 1/2tspn
• Turmeric powder – 1/4tspn
• Salt – 1/2tspn (adjust to taste)
• Soda Salt – 1/4tspn
• Garam masala – 1tspn
• Cumin seeds – 1/2tspn
• Green chilli – 1
• Garlic  - 3 pieces
• Onion – 1 (small)
• Spring onions – ¼ cup
• Water – as required
• Oil – for deep frying

The following picture shows the step by step process for Methi Pakoda:

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 Method:

1. Wash and cut the methi leaves as small pieces.
2. Take a bowl, add gram flour, salt, soda salt, turmeric powder, red chilli powder, cumin seeds, garam masala, onions, spring onions, green chilli pieces, crashed garlic, methi leaves and mix well. (figure 1 & 2)
3. Add required water and make a thick paste. (figure 3)
4. Take a pan, heat oil for deep frying in a medium  flame.(figure 4)
5. Now take some amount of paste, make a pakoda in oil and fry until its color changes to golden brown.(figure 5)
6. Continue for remaining pakoda’s and transfer into paper towel for removing excess oil.
7. Serve in a plate. (figure 6)

Methi Pakoda is ready to serve !

Additional Tips:-

• In case if you like eating spring onion then can use both onion and its leaves in step 3 instead of normal onion.
•  In step 3, ensure that paste should be thick or else pakoda will not come.