Indian Bread Pakoda

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Indian Bread Pakoda

 

10 bread slices

2 boiled potatoes

4 green chillies chopped, hot like serrano or jalapeno

salt to taste

1 tsp. red chili powder

1/4 tsp. cumin seeds

fresh curry leaves, sprig (optional)

1/2  tsp. turmeric 

gram flour 5 to 6 tbsps.

ghee or olive oil for frying

1 cup gram flour (basin)  (Indian or middle eastern market)

 

Seive besan flour and add water, soda, chili powder and salt to it, and mix the

batter like a pakoda batter. Set aside. Heat a little of ghee in a pan.. Add

cumin seeds and allow it to crackle then add curry leaves and finely chopped

green chilies, stir. Now add boiled and mashed potatoes to it add turmeric

powder and salt, mix well. Simmer for 2 minutes. Set aside. Take the bread

slices and fill one slice of bread with potato filling and cover with other

slice of the bread and cut this in to four equal squares. Dip this properly in

the batter and deep fry in ghee till it is done.