CHINESE PAKORA

CHINESE PAKORA

Chinese pakora is a unique and fusion street food recipe made with vegetables and chinese sauces , basically simple deep fried snack which gets most of the properties from the traditional pakora recipe . It is generally dark red in colour and is filled with indo chineses flavours , like chilli sauce , vinegar and soy a sauce . They are crisp and spiced fried vegetable fritters . Chinese pakora is one of the inventions of mumbai city and is popular well known street food from mumbai . Chinese pakora resembles vegetable manchurian balls since cabbage is the main veggie used here . The only difference is , no sauce is made , and chinese pakora is served with schezwan sauce or serve them with any tomato or chilli sauce or any chutney . You can use besan also instead of maida . Traditionally red food colour is used to give them reddish colour bot you can skip it or add juice from grated beetroot . That is optional too .

COOKING TIME 30 minutes SERVES 4

INGREDIENTS

Cabbage 1.5 cup grated or cut very finely

carrot 1 grated

onion 1/2 cut finely in small pieces

bell pepeer 1/2 cup cut in small pieces

Beans [ optional ] 4-5 cut in small pieces , 1 green chilli cut finely , ginger garlic paste or ginger , 4 garlic grated ,

red chilli sauce 1 tsp , soya sauce 1tsp , vinegar 1 tsp, maida 1/2 cup , corn flour 2 tbs , salt , oil for frying

METHOD

1. Grate cabbage and carrot . Squeeze them little to take out water . Cut onion , bell pepper and beans into small pieces . Mix every thing . Add greenchilli and ginger garlic paste or grated .
2. Add 1 tsp each of soya sauce , chilli sauce and vinegar . You can add more as per taste . Add salt .
3. Mix 1/2 cup maida and 2 tbs corn flour . You can add beetroot juice to give red colour to it . But you can skip it .
4. Now make balls and deep fry on medium gas.

RELISH AND ENJOY CHINESE PAKORA WITH ANY TOMATO SAUCE OR CHILLY SAUCE OR ANY CHUTNEY