Sabudana Pakoda | Sabudana Pakora

Sabudana pakoda recipe with step-by-step images – sabudana pakora is one more snack that may be made throughout fasting or Vrat days. These sabudana pakoda may be made for Ekadashi fast or Navratri fast and even for Janmashtami fast or on every other Hindu non secular fasting day.

These pakoras are easy and simple to make and so they additionally make for a pleasant breakfast or night snack. I make these generally for a night snack and we get pleasure from them with tomato sauce or coriander chutney. Few extra fasting snacks recipes on the weblog are:

These sabudana pakoras are barely totally different from the Maharashtrian Sabudana Vada. Right here I add some buckwheat flour (kuttu ka atta) to the pakora combination and excluded some substances like lemon juice and coriander leaves. So the style and taste is totally different.

Other than buckwheat flour, the opposite fundamental substances on this recipe are sabudana or tapioca pearls, roasted peanuts, and potatoes. The peanuts give crunchy style and add taste. Mashed potatoes and buckwheat flour assist in binding the pakora. Other than that buckwheat flour additionally absorbs further moisture, if any.

Since I get fairly laborious sabudana pearls right here, I at all times soak them in a single day. By morning they soften rather well. So relying on the standard of the pearls, you may soak them in a single day or for a number of hours.

Step-by-Step Information

Tips on how to make Sabudana Pakoda

1. Soak the sabudana or tapioca pearls in sufficient water in a single day or for 4 to five hours. Later drain all the water very nicely utilizing a strainer and preserve apart the sabudana in a mixing bowl.

Relying upon the standard of sabudana you may select to soak for two hours or extra as wanted. I at all times soak sabudana in a single day.

2. Boil the potatoes in a pan or strain cooker. Once they cool, peel and chop roughly.

Roast the peanuts in a pan until browned and crisp. In a mortar-pestle, coarsely crush the roasted peanuts.

Add the next substances to the soaked sabudana

• chopped boiled potatoes
• crushed roasted peanuts
• cumin seeds
• chopped inexperienced chilies
• sugar
• buckwheat flour
• edible rock salt as required

3. Combine the substances rather well utilizing a spoon or with clear arms. Examine the style and add extra salt or sugar if required.

4. Warmth oil for frying in a kadai or pan. Make small balls of the combination together with your arms or utilizing a spoon drop the combination in medium sizzling oil rigorously. Hold the warmth to medium to medium-high.

5. First let the sabudana pakoda turn out to be opaque and evenly golden whereas frying after which flip them with a slotted spoon. Don’t be in a rush to show them as this can break them within the oil. So first let the pakoda agency up and turn out to be gentle golden earlier than turning over.

Deep fry the second aspect until they’re golden and crisp. You may flip them a number of occasions with a slotted spoon as wanted to get an excellent golden coloration.

As soon as completely fried, then take away them on paper napkins to take away extra oil.

In case you are making these Sabudana pakodas for fasting/vrat then serve them with Phalahari chutney or saunth chutney or home made tomato sauce. In any other case you may serve sabudana pakoras with any inexperienced chutney or mint chutney.

Suggestions for Sabudana Pakora

• If making these as a night snack, use common salt. When making for any Hindu fasting days, add edible rock salt.
• Make certain the oil is medium-hot whereas frying. A lesser sizzling oil will make these pakoda take in an excessive amount of of oil and a very popular oil will brown them shortly or burn them.
• As an alternative of buckwheat flour, you should utilize amaranth flour, water chestnut flour. If making for non-fasting days, use rice flour, gram flour (besan) or cornstarch.
• When making any fasting snack I take advantage of peanut oil for frying. Nevertheless in case you are making these pakora for normal non-fasting days then you should utilize any neutral-flavored oil.
• You may even shallow fry them however flattened the balls barely while you shallow fry them.

I’ve few extra Sabudana Recipes on my weblog that you simply would possibly wish to examine like:

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This Sabudana Pakora submit from the archives first revealed in August 2013 has been republished and up to date on 24 June 2022.