Mooli Pakoda Recipe

HOW TO MAKE MOOLI PAKODA

Author: Khanacooking. Recipe type: Snacks. 

Prep time : 25-30 minutes
Cook time      : 20-25 minutes
Servings         : 4


Mooli Pakoda is easy to make at home and tasty snack.

Ingredients for Mooli Pakoda

• Mooli or radish 500 gms
• Chana Dal Besan or Gram Flour 1 1/2 cup
• Oil for frying
• Green Chillies 2-3
• Turmeric Powder (Haldi) 1/2 Tablespoon
• Salt as per taste
• Asafoetida (Hing) 1 Pinch
• Chili Powder 1 tablespoon
• Lemon Juice 1 tsp
• Coriander Leaves 1 cup
• Ajwain
• Chat Masala
• Fenugreek leaves or methi leaves 1 cup
• Kadai
• Spoon
• Gas
• Tomato Sauce
• Bowl.

Before Preparation of Mooli Pakoda

• Cut mooli or radish in to small sizes.
• Chop green chillies, coriander leaves, fenugreek leaves.

Making of Mooli Pakoda

1. Now take besan in a bowl and add chopped green chillies, turmeric powder, salt, asafoetida, chilli powder,ginger, choped coriander leaves, chat masala, ajwain, choped fenugreek leaves in a bowl and add water as per requirement. Batter should be free flowing and not very hard.
2. Keep the bowl covered for 15-20 minutes.
3. After 15-20 minutes dip the mooli pieces in the batter.
4. Keep the kadai with oil on the gas for heating, starting in full flame and then reduce the flame to medium.
5. Oil should not be excess heated up otherwise the taste of mooli pakodas will get spoiled. 
6. Now put the dipped mooli pieces in the batter from the bowl, in small or medium quantities with the help of spoon or fork or washed hands in the kadai. 
7. Fry in oil till the batter colour turns to brown.
8. After frying pakodas, take them out, drain them for excess oil and initially put the mooli pakodas on tissue paper so that still remained excess oil will be drained out. 
9. Follow the same procedure from step 6 to 8 for remaining batter. 

Now serve/eat the hot and tasty mooli pakoda with tomato sauce.