Bread Pakora Recipe | Bread Pakoda

Bread Pakora Recipe | Bread Pakoda – Bread pakora is an easy and simple bread snack, made using bread slices (with stuffing or without stuffing) and a flavorful gram flour batter. This fried snack can be made with many variations of filling.

You can make plain bread pakora or a simple one with just green chutney and ketchup inside or you have the option of spreading aloo (potato) on bread or make it cheesy with the cheese slice stuffed between the bread slices.

Bread Pakora Recipe | Bread Pakoda – Fry your preferred variation of bread sandwich after dipping in spiced gram flour batter and enjoy the crispy, golden and tasty bread pakoda with hot chai, green chutney, or ketchup.

Bread pakoda is a super tasty snack liked by kids also. We can serve it as an evening snack or as a weekend breakfast also.

In this bread pakora recipe

• You can try multiple variations in this bread snack pakora, like make it simple without stuffing, put zucchini or experiment with cucumber, or try yummy aloo filing or cheese. Make it as you want and relish this Indian street food snack.
• If you do not like cheese then you can skip stuffing the cheese slice between the bread slice. Kids would love to have cheesy bread pakora as their evening snack or party snack.
• When you dip the bread in the batter, do the process of dipping and sliding it into the medium hot oil quickly else the bread may break.
• I have used wholemeal bread in this Indian fried snack recipe, You have the option of taking white bread or multigrain bread also.
• Apart from regular Indian spices, you may add some ginger-garlic or some mixed herbs seasoning to the batter. Batter consistency has to be medium in order to get crispy pakora.

Check other snacks recipes like Pizza Dosa, Hara Bhara Kabab, Pav Bhaji and Noodles Balls along with this post of bread pakoda.

How to make bread pakoda with step by step pics

Making batter

1. Firstly, take 1 cup besan (gram flour) in a mixing bowl.

2. Add the following spices to the besan (gram flour).

• 1 tsp kashmiri red chili powder.
• 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
• 1/2 tsp garam masala powder
• 1/2 tsp cumin powder
• 1.5 tsp salt or salt to taste
• 1/4 tsp asafoetida (hing)
• 1/2 tsp mixed herbs (optional)

3. Further, add 1 tbsp lemon juice and 1 tbsp chopped coriander leaves to the besan (gram flour).

4. Make a smooth batter by adding little less than 3/4 cup water, I have added 8 tbsp water to make the medium consistency batter.

For vegetable stuffing

5. Additionally, take 1 green zucchini, wash it well, and wipe it with a dry cloth.

6. Take 1/4 part of zucchini and make thin slices of it with the help of a vegetable slicer.

7. Keep the zucchini slices on a plate aside, If you do not like zucchini, take cucumber or you may skip adding it.

For assembling

8. Take 2 slices of bread.

9. Spread 1/2 tsp green coriander chutney on one slice of the bread and 1/2 tsp tomato ketchup on the other slice.

10. Arrange 4 slices of zucchini on one bread slice. Sprinkle a pinch of mixed herb on a zucchini slice.

11. Put a cheese slice on zucchini. You can take any type of cheese slice.

12. Cover this cheese bread slice with the other bread slice on which we had spread green chutney, press it lightly.

Frying bread pakora

13. Add 1/8 tsp baking soda to the gram flour batter, stir it.

14. Dip prepared bread sandwich in the batter, quickly take out after coating it.

15. Fry in hot oil. oil has to be medium hot. I prefer shallow frying, however, you may deep fry also.

16. When the pakora is done from one side, flip it carefully and continue cooking it on the other side.

17. Once pakora is golden and crisp on both sides, take it out on a plate and cut it into 2 pieces. Repeat the same process for the next batch of bread sandwiches.

Tasty and easy evening snack bread pakora is ready. Enjoy with a hot cup of tea. 

Serving suggestions for bread pakoda

If you are spreading coriander mint chutney and ketchup on the bread slices then serve the pakora with hot chai (tea) or coffee.

2. If you are making plain bread pakoda or aloo stuffed or zucchini or any other vegetable stuffed pakora then you can serve with ketchup, green chutney, or hot tea.

3. Sweet tamarind chutney also goes well with bread pakora.

Stuffing options for bread pakora

1. Chutney stuffing-Spread chutney over the bread, you can take any two types of chutney, coriander-mint, tamarind, chili sauce, or tomato ketchup.
2. Aloo stuffing- Boil potatoes, remove the skin and mash them after adding Indian spices to them. Roast lightly in little oil and stuff between bread slices.
3. Cheese stuffing- Stuff the bread sandwich with a cheese slice, or grated processed cheese, or grated cheddar cheese.
4. Vegetable stuffing- After spreading chutney over the bread piece, put some vegetables of your choice like cucumber, onion, zucchini, or a combination of these.
5.  Aloo peas stuffing- Add some boiled peas to boiled potato (aloo).

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