How to make pakoras with chickpeas?

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Image of golden brown pakoras frying in hot oil.
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When I was young I always enjoyed it when my mother would fry up a batch of parkoras. They were always best fresh and hot This is when they were the crunchiest. Fast forward to when I’m older, paying my own mortgage and mother isn’t frying let alone standing by a pot of oil, I want pakoras. When I ask her for the recipe, what I do I learn, the crunchiness is because they were pakoras with chickpeas. The chickpeas are what made them crunchy. This is my mother’s pakora recipe.

Ingredients

  • 2c chickpeas soaked overnight in water
  • 1.5 c  chopped cooking onions
  • 4  small hot green chillies
  • 4  large garlic cloves
  • 2 sq cm   fresh ginger root
  • ½ tsp  turmeric
  • ¼ tsp  cayenne pepper
  • ¼ tsp  salt

Instructions

  1. To make chickpea paste:
    1. Put 1 c of soaked and drained chickpeas in a grinder with the garlic cloves and fresh ginger root and  ½ c water.
    2. Grind the mixtures into a coarse paste.
    3. Repeat steps I and II with the second cup of chickpeas; hot green chillies and ½ c of waters. 
Image of pakoras with chickpeas dough in a glass bowl with a wooden spoon and red spatulas.
  1. Put the ground chickpeas in a plastic container and add the spices and mix well, while stirring with a fork.
  2. Add the finely chopped onions and mix well.
  3. The mixture is ready for deep frying.
  4. Heat oil in a pan on stove.
  5. Remove the hot oil from the stove and turn heat down.
  6. Make a patty like the cookie dough and put in the hot oil.
  7. Put the pan back on the stove. Turn the heat on to high and cook until the pakoras turn light brown.
Picture of pakoras frying in hot oil.
Pakoras frying in oil.
Golden brown pakoras in hot oil ready to be removed.
These pakoras are gold brown and read to be taken out of the oil.
  1. Turn the Pakoras and cook at medium heat until golden brown.
  2. Drain the oil and put in a colander lined with paper towels.
Freshly fried pakoras straining in paper towels.
  1. Let the Pakoras stand and cool for five minutes.
  2. Serve. 
Image of fried pakoras with chickpeas in a black bowl.
Freshly fried pakoras with chickpeas ready to eat.

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  4. Garbanzo beans (Chickpeas), The World’s Healthiest Foods,  URL: http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=58
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I enjoy learning and sharing that knowledge. Sharing has been in many forms over the years, as a teaching assistant, university lecturer, Pilates instructor, math tutor and just sharing with friends and family. Throughout, summarizing what I have learnt in words has always been there and continues to through blog posts, articles, video and the ever growing forms of content out there!

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