Bread Pakora is a popular tasty Indian street food made with bread, potatoes, gram flour (besan) and few spices. It is easy to make, great to enjoy as evening or tea time snack and is completely vegetarian (can be made vegan too).
Typically bread pakoda can be made in 2 ways- without stuffing and with stuffing. The first version is pretty simple to make as all you have to is cut bread slices in squares or triangles, dip them in spiced gram flour batter and deep fry.
Making stuffed version takes little more effort as we prepare a potato mash stuffing first. This stuffing is spread on two bread slices and then pressed together (like a sandwich). This sandwich is then cut into half or quarters, dipped in besan batter and deep fried till crunchy and golden brown.
What makes the snack irresistible is its crispy outer covering with soft melt in the mouth potato filling. Though traditionally bread pakora are deep fried but if you want to enjoy a low oil version, you can easily shallow fry or air fry them.
Ingredients you’ll need:
Bread: You can choose any bread of your choice like white bread, milk bread, brown bread or multigrain bread. If you want to keep recipe vegan (dairy free), use vegan bread as rest all the ingredients in this recipe are suitable for vegan diet.
Potatoes: The bread is stuffed with a mixture of spiced potato mash. To save time while cooking, you can boil and mash the potatoes before hand. Always let the stuffing cool down completely before applying on bread as otherwise it can turn it soggy. Along with potatoes, you can also add paneer or pead in stuffing.
Spices: The spices need to be added twice in the recipe- once in the batter in which we will dip the bread and second to the potato mash. If the spices are not added to besan (gram flour) batter, the outer covering can taste bland.
In stuffing, different Indian spices are added like jeera (cumin), red chilli powder and coriander powder are added. Along with them, some freshly grated ginger, green chillies and herbs like cilantro and coriander enhance the taste of stuffing.
Oil: You can use any cooking oil for deep frying or air frying like sunflower oil, peanut or sesame oil.
I personally like to apply some cilantro mint chutney on both slices of bread before applying potato mash as it gives a vibrant fresh flavour to pakora. You can create you own variation of it by applying other chutney or spreads like tamarind chutney, chilli garlic chutney, ketchup, sriracha or tandoori mayo.
Hope you will try this easy stuffed bread pakoda recipe. More Indian snacks you might also like to try:
- Batata Vada
- Masoor Dal Vada
- Instant Bread Vada
- Aloo Pakora (Potato Fritters)
- Moong Dal Pakora (Lentil fritters)
Ingredients: (Makes 8 pieces)
- Bread Slices- 4
- Oil- For frying
- For covering:
- Gram Flour (Besan)- 2 and 1/2 cups
- Water- as required
- Salt- 1 tsp
- Red Chilli Powder- 1/2 tsp
- For stuffing:
- Potatoes (boiled)- 2 (medium size)
- Onion (chopped)- 1 (optional)
- Green Chillies (chopped)- 2
- Ginger Paste- 1/2 tsp
- Chopped Cilantro or Coriander-1/4 cup
- Oil- 1 tbsp
- Cumin seeds- 1/2 tsp
- Turmeric Powder- 1/4 tsp
- Red Chilli powder- 1/2 tsp
- Garam Masala- 1/2 tsp
- Coriander Powder- 1 tsp
- Mango Powder- 1/2 tsp
- Salt- 1 tsp (or to taste)
Directions:
Step 1:
Prepare the batter by mixing gram flour, salt, red chilli powder. Add the water gradually so that no lumps remain. Make sure you do not add much water making the batter runny. The batter should fall in ribbons when dropped from height. Keep this batter aside.
Step 2:
In this step, we are going to prepare the stuffing. Mash the boiled potatoes. Add oil in a pan and let it heat. Once it is heated, add cumin seeds, turmeric powder and ginger paste. Stir the spices well. Add chopped onions and green chillies. Cook the onions for 2-3 minutes , then add mashed potatoes, salt, red chilli powder, garam masala, coriander powder, mango powder and coriander leaves. Mix well and cook for 4-5 minutes on low flame. Keep it aside to cool down.
Step 3:
Now take two bread slices. Coat one side of each bread slice with potato mash and press them together.
Cut the breads diagonally from top two corners. You will get four stuffed bread pieces. Repeat this with other two bread slices.
Step 4:
Heat oil in a frying pan. The oil should be medium hot. The oil should not be too hot or the bread pakoras will burn from outside and if it is not sufficiently warm, the pakoras will stick to the base of the pan. Once the oil is heated, coat the stuffed breads in the gram flour batter and swiftly leave them in the frying pan.
Keep pouring the hot oil gently on the top side of the bread pakoras. This will crisp the surface of bread pakora evenly.
Turn the pakora the other side after 1-2 min and repeat the process. Sieve the bread pakoras when they have turned golden from both sides and drain over kitchen tissue to remove any excess oil.
Aloo stuffed Bread Pakora are ready. You can sprinkle some chaat masala over the. Enjoy with cilantro mint chutney, tamarind chutney or ketchup.
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