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Lauki Pakora
Lauki pakora are lightly spiced bottle gourd fritters made with gram flour or besan.
Prep Time
15
minutes
mins
Cook Time
25
minutes
mins
Total Time
40
minutes
mins
Course:
Snacks
Cuisine:
Indian
Servings:
2
to 3
Author:
Dassana Amit
Ingredients
1.5
cups
grated lauki
(ghia or dudhi or bottle gourd or opo squash)
¼
cup
finely chopped onion
or 1 small onion, finely chopped
1
cup
besan
(gram flour)
½
inch
ginger
+ 1 green chili - crushed fine in a mortar-pestle
a generous pinch of turmeric powder
a generous pinch of red chili powder
a generous pinch of garam masala powder
a pinch of asafoetida
(hing)
salt as required
oil for deep or shallow frying
Instructions
Rinse, peel and grate the lauki/bottle gourd.
Squeeze the grated lauki with your palms and remove the juice in a bowl.
Take the squeezed lauki in a separate bowl.
Add all the rest of the ingredients mentioned above except oil.
Add the juice as required and make a thick batter.
If the batter looks very thick and dry like, you can add some water in case the juice has got over.
Heat oil in a kadai or pan.
Drop spoonfuls of the pakora batter in medium hot oil.
Fry the pakoras till crisp and golden.
Drain the pakoras on kitchen paper towels to remove excess oil.
Serve lauki pakoras hot with coriander chutney or tomato sauce or mint chutney or with any green chutney.
Notes
1. You can adjust the spices as per your preference.
2. You can make these pakoras with zucchini as well.