Name: Apple pakoras spiced with chaat masala
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: Serves 5–6
Cuisine: Pakistani
Ingredients: 1 tsp ground coriander; 160 g/5¾ oz/1¾ cups gram flour; ¾ tsp salt; 40 g/1½ oz/¼ cup rice flour; 500 ml/17 fl oz/2 cups sunflower oil; 2 Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored and cut into thin round slices; 150 ml/5 fl oz/⅔ cup water; 1 tbsp chaat masala; 1 tbsp chopped coriander (cilantro) leaves; 1 tsp red chilli powder; 1 tsp dry-roasted cumin seeds

Preparation info

Serves
5–6

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
25 min

Appears in

Summers Under the Tamarind Tree

By Sumayya Usmani

Published 2016

About

As the sweltering days of summer melted into cooler evenings, I remember huddling under soft blankets with my Nani (maternal grandmother), breathing in Karachi’s sea air and eating fresh pakoras. It’s this memory that inspires my own tart yet comforting apple pakoras.

Ingredients

160 g/5¾ oz/1¾ cups gram flour
40

Method

Whisk the flours, water, all the spices, salt, coriander leaves and about 1 teaspoon of the chaat masala together in a large bowl until it is a thick batter. When the consistency is correct the batter should lazily fall off a spoon. Add the apple slices to the batter and mix well until the apple is coated evenly in the pakora batter.

Heat the oil for deep-frying in a deep, heavy-based p

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