Description
The famous snack or breakfast and teatime snack known as Air fryer bread onion fritters or pakora, is made of onion slices, bread, spices, besan or chickpea flour, and some herbs. Although not a common food in Indian families, bread onion pakora is quite well-liked there, especially in Mumbai and Kolkata.
Ingredients
Scale
- 3 medium – Onion Sliced
- 1/2 cup – Rice flour/Corn starch
- 5 pieces – Bread cut in halves
- 1 cup – Chickpea flour/Besan
- 1 cup – Coriander leaves chopped
- 1 inch – Ginger chopped
- 3 – Green chilies chopped
- 1 tsp – Nigella seeds
- 1 tbsp – Red chili powder
- 1 tsp – Carom seeds
- Salt to taste
- 1 tsp – Turmeric powder
- Vegetable Oil for air frying or deep frying
- Water as required
Instructions
- In a bowl add onion sliced. Add salt to taste..
- Mix the salt with onion slices very nicely.
- Now add ginger chopped, green chili chopped, turmeric powder, red chili powder, carrom seeds, and Nigella seeds.
- Now add rice flour for extra crispiness. Now add chickpea flour.
- Now add a good amount of coriander leaves chopped.
- Mix everything nicely.
- The mixture will be a little dry so add 4 to 5 tbsp water.
- Mix well now the mixture is ready and right consistency.
- Now take a bread slice and coat it well on both sides with onion mixture.
- For deep frying method: Heat oil for deep frying on medium flame. Now once the oil is medium hot add the bread onion mixture and slice.
- Fry till golden brown.
- Now flip and fry the other side till golden brown.
- Take out and drain out the excess oil with the help of a spatula once crisp and golden.
- Take out on a tissue paper to soak extra oil.
- For the Air frying method: Place parchment paper in the air fryer basket. Place 2 slices of bread onion mixture. Add oil on top of the slices of bread. You can spray oil as well.
- Brush oil on top of the bread onion mixture. Now air fries them at 380 degrees F for 20 minutes. Then flip in between and again brush some oil on the other side and air fry for 15 minutes at 380 degrees F. Take out once crisp and golden with the help of a spatula.
- Crispy air fryer bread onion fritters are ready to be served with ketchup or any Dip.
Notes
- Taste the gram flour: It’s critical to use high-quality gram flour or besan since it releases a strong aroma when roasted.
- Cut the onions into consistently thin slices before frying them. Pakoras that are both thin and thick won’t be crispy. The pakoras become soft when the thicker slices are not properly cooked. So, cut them into quite thin slices.
- Pakoda is traditionally made with besan or gram flour. However, in the street style and restaurant style, extra ingredients are added to keep the fritters crisp for a longer period of time, such as semolina, maize flour, or rice flour. In the recipe, use 1 to 2 tbsp of this.
- Before adding the dough, the oil must be sufficiently hot. The pakoras will absorb oil if the oil is not hot enough. The onion pakoda will brown on the outside but not cook through if the oil is too hot.
- The flame must be set to medium-high while frying pakodas. They will get hard if you fry them over a low flame. Additionally, frying them over a hot flame will burn them from the surface without actually cooking them inside.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 20
- Category: Appetizer, Side Dish, Snack
- Method: Air-fry
- Cuisine: Indian
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 4 people
- Calories: 312 Kcal
- Sugar: 7g
- Sodium: 938mg
- Fat: 16g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 60g
- Fiber: 8g
- Protein: 15g