Bread pakoda is a fried snacks and popular snacks in the streets of Mumbai, India. Its made from bread slices with the includance of gram flour, atta or maida powder and other spicy ingredients that creates a delicious snacks for the working people in the crowded city of Mumbai. The snacks are made in small tea shops in the evening hours. That bring a great relief to cover up their hungriness for working guys till they reach home. Am presenting my idea of preparation done by me.
Ingredients as follows:-
6 nos of bread slices
2 nos of potatoes (medium sized)
3 nos of green chillies
2-3 pcs of garlics
Small piece of ginger
1/4 tsp, 2 pinch of turmeric powder
1 tsp of chilly powder
1/4 tsp of garam masala powder
3-4 drops of lemon or half part of ripe tomato
1 medium glass of gram flour
1/4 glass of atta or maida powder
One spring of curry leaves
1 onion medium sized
Oil/coconut as required
2 pinch of asafoetida powder
Salt as required
PREPARATION
Roast the bread slices and keep it aside. Take a pressure cooker add potatoes, little water and cook it with three time whistle in medium flame.
Chop the onion, green chilly, garlic, ginger and curry leaves. Finely chopped into very small pieces, just as we make for seasoning of curry.
Place a kadai on flame, pour enough oil. Let it be heated, add the onion mix and saute it well. Until it turns to transparent. Add 2 pinch of turmeric powder, 1/2 tsp of chilly powder, 1/4 tsp of gharam masala powder and salt. First step add very litte you can adjust it further. Saute well until the raw smell goes away. Pour very little water and stir. Add 3-4 drops of lemon into it. You can add 1/2 ripe tomato instead of lemon. This step is optional. If you dislike sourness can skip it. Finally add the mashed potatoes (You have to mash the potatoes when its cooked) saute and mix everything well. Remove it from the flame and keep for cooling. Meanwhile we have to make batter.
Take a wide spread pan and add the measured gram flour and atta powder into it. Mix it. Add 1/4 tsp of turmeric powder, 1/2 tsp of chilly powder, asafoetida powder, salt and mix it well. Add water little by little. Don't pour too much at once. Make a medium batter.Not too thick nor thin. The bread mix should be able to absorb the batter.
Take the bread slices, apply the potato mixture in one side of the bread. Cover the slice with the other slice and cut the bread slices into triangular sizes.
Dip the filled slices into the batter to coat the breads.
Take a deep pan pour enough oil. When the oil is heated reduce the flame and fry the pokuvada by turning both sides.
Ingredients as follows:-
6 nos of bread slices
2 nos of potatoes (medium sized)
3 nos of green chillies
2-3 pcs of garlics
Small piece of ginger
1/4 tsp, 2 pinch of turmeric powder
1 tsp of chilly powder
1/4 tsp of garam masala powder
3-4 drops of lemon or half part of ripe tomato
1 medium glass of gram flour
1/4 glass of atta or maida powder
One spring of curry leaves
1 onion medium sized
Oil/coconut as required
2 pinch of asafoetida powder
PREPARATION
Roast the bread slices and keep it aside. Take a pressure cooker add potatoes, little water and cook it with three time whistle in medium flame.
Chop the onion, green chilly, garlic, ginger and curry leaves. Finely chopped into very small pieces, just as we make for seasoning of curry.
Take the bread slices, apply the potato mixture in one side of the bread. Cover the slice with the other slice and cut the bread slices into triangular sizes.
Dip the filled slices into the batter to coat the breads.
Take a deep pan pour enough oil. When the oil is heated reduce the flame and fry the pokuvada by turning both sides.
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