Sabudana Pakoda Recipe
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 04-04-2024
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Sabudanna pakoda is a crispy, crunchy and mouthwatering snack. It is
crispy from outside and soft and chewy from inside. This sabudana pakoda
is usually made during the vrat or upvaas like Navratri fast, ekadasi,
maha shivratri, janmashtami, gauri vrat or Shravan maas upvaas. But this
recipe is not restricted to this fasting days.
Ingredients
1/2
cup sabudana, 1 large potato, 3/4 tsp cumin seeds/jeera, 1/2 to 1 tsp
sugar, 1 green chili, chopped, 2 tbsp kuttu ka atta/buckwheat flour, 1/4
cup peanuts, Rock salt or sendha namak as required
How to make
Soak
the sabudana in enough water overnight or for 4-5 hours. Drain and keep
aside in a mixing bowl.Boil the potatoes, peel and chop roughly. Roast
the peanuts in a pan till browned and crisp. In a mortar-pestle,
coarsely crush the roasted peanuts.
add all ingredients to the
drained sabudana, including the chopped potatoes and peanuts. Mix well.
Check the taste and add more salt or sugar if required. Heat oil in a
kadai or pan. Make small balls with your hands or using a spoon drop the
mixture in to medium hot oil. Let the pakoras become opaque and then
turn them with a slotted spoon.
Deep fry till the sabudana
pakoras become light golden and crisp. Drain the pakoras on paper
napkins to remove excess oil. Serve sabudana pakoras hot with tomato
sauce or green chutney or coconut chutney. if you are making these
sabudana pakoras for fasting then serve them with phalahari chutney.
Preparation Time: 31-40 minutes
Cooking time: 11-15 minutes
Serves: 2-3 people.