Palak Pakoda – Marathi Recipe

Instructions

• Pluck off the palak leaves and wash then really good.
• Cut each leaf into 2-3 pieces. Do not cut the leaves finely.
• Add besan, rice flour, green chilies, salt, ajwain, red chili powder, turmeric powder, baking soda and mix everything well with palak.
• You can blend the rice in mixer and use that flour instead of rice flour.
• Mash the palak leaves a little while mixing.
• This helps the palak leaves in releasing the moisture in them.
• Add a little water and make dry or thick batter like kanda bhaji or khekada bhaji.
• The batter should not be thin at all.
• Heat up oil in a pan.
• When the oil is enough hot separate the batter and drop it in oil.
• After frying the bhaji for about 3-4 minutes from one side flip them over and fry well from other side too.
• Take the bhaji out into a dish and palak bhaji are already.
• You can serve the palak bhaji with sauce, green chutney, mint chutney or as it is.