Sweet Potato Pakora

Name: Sweet Potato Pakora
Ingredients: 250 g sweet potatoes, peeled and coarsely grated; ½ red onion, finely diced; 15 g fresh ginger, peeled and roughly chopped; 1 large garlic clove, peeled and roughly chopped; 1 red chilli, trimmed and roughly chopped; 75 g gram flour; 2 tsp garam masala; ¾ tsp baking powder; ½ tsp fine salt; vegetable oil, for frying; mango chutney; lime wedges

Preparation info

Makes about
16

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Seasonal Snacks

By Gabriella English

Published 2026

About

The trick with these is to make sure the oil is really nice and hot so that the pakoras puff up as soon as they start frying, ensuring they have a lovely light texture in the middle. Sweet potato has a fairly high sugar content, which means they can burn quite easily, so keep an eye on them as they fry.

Ingredients

250 g sweet potatoes, peeled and coarsely grated
½ red onion, finely diced
15 g <

Snack
Vegan
September

Method

Put the grated sweet potato and red onion in a bowl. In a mini food processor, blitz the ginger, garlic and chilli until finely chopped (or just finely chop them by hand). Add the mixture to the bowl along with the gram flour, garam masala, baking powder and salt. Gradually stir in 150ml water until everything is evenly combined.

Add about 5mm oil to a wide, high-sided frying pan over a