These are quite popular in the north Indian restaurants and can be very easily made at home. These make a great appetizer or snack for kids’ parties. Paneer pakora can be made when you have sudden guests home or want to make something instantly for your family. As it requires no chopping or any other kind of preparation they are very very quick to make. Paneer pakora can be served with green chutney or with any sauce like schezwan sauce. These can also be had as it is with your evening cup of masala tea. I made these along with garlic red chili chutney which I have shared at the end of this post. Usually for pakora recipes, there is no rice flour used. But I have used here just to make them crispy. You can skip it if you do not have or replace with corn flour. I prefer the this homemade paneer for most of my paneer recipes. You can however use store bought one too. For more snacks recipes, you can checkDahi vadaSamosaHara bhara kababFalafel
Preparation
- Add paneer to a mixing bowl. Sprinkle chaat masala, garam masala and red chili powder. Toss to coat the paneer well.
- Add oil to a kadai or a fry pan and heat oil.
- Meanwhile make the batter. Add besan, rice flour, red chili powder, salt, ajwain, ginger chilli paste.
- Add water little by little as needed and make a thick, free flowing batter.
- If the batter is too thick, it will not stick to the paneer. If it is too runny, then there will be lot of batter drippings. So the consistency has to be moderately thick yet free flowing.
How to make paneer pakora
- Check if the oil is hot enough by dropping little batter into it. It has to come up. Regulate the flame to medium. Dip paneer pieces, one by one in the batter and swipe off the excess to the bowl and drop it in the hot oil.
- Do not add all the paneer to the batter at one time.
- Dip them one by one in batter & drop them in hot oil.
- Do not disturb for few seconds. Stir and fry them until golden.
- Drain paneer pakora to a kitchen tissue and serve hot with your favorite chutney. If you like to make the chilli garlic chutney here is how I made it. Soak about 1/4 cup broken red chilies in hot water until soft. Blend them well with salt, half tsp sugar, 2 to 3 garlic cloves and little lemon juice. The chutney has to blended to smooth adding water little by little as needed. Serve paneer pakora hot as they turn soft when cooled. Related Recipes
