Pakoray

Name: Pakoray
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 1 h
Yield: Serves: 5-6 persons
Cuisine: Pakistani
Ingredients: 1½ cups Gram Flour; 1 tsp Cumin Seeds; ½ tsp Red Chilli Powder; ¼ tsp Baking Powder; ¼ tsp Coriander Seeds (crushed); Salt to taste; Oil for deep-frying; 2 medium Eggplants (cut into round slices); 2 medium Potatoes (cut into round slices); 2 tbsp fresh Coriander Leaves (chopped); 1 small Onion (sliced); 2-3 Green Chillies (chopped)

Fried Gram Flour Fritters

Preparation info

Serves:
5-6
persons

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
1 hr

Appears in

VIRSA

By Shehar Bano Rizvi

Published 2021

About

Pakoray is a popular snack and another essential item on a Pakistani iftar table. Abbo used to say that an iftar in Ramzan /Ramadan is incomplete without pakoray. It is also associated with rainy weather, and as soon as it would start drizzling, the ambiance calls for pakoray with chai.

Ingredients

Set 1: For Pakora Batter

1½ cups Gram Flour
1 tsp Cumin Seeds
¼

Asia
Pakistan
Snack
Vegan
Gluten-free
Ramadan

Method

Make the batter for the pakoray by mixing all the ingredients for the pakora batter (set 1) with a little water. Keep it aside for a couple of hours.

For the potato or eggplant pakoray, coat the vegetable slices in the batter and deep-fry on medium heat.

For mixed pakoray, add the onions, coriander leaves, and green chillies to the batter and deep-fry.