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Onion Pakoda-Onion Pakora Recipe-Cripsy Onion Pakodas (Fritters)

October 7, 2013 by PadhuSankar 21 Comments

Onion Pakoda is a very popular snack recipe which can be prepared in just 5-10 minutes. In Mumbai, it is known as “Kanda Bhaji”. It is also a popular tea  time snack and tastes great with green chutney or ketchup or as it is. This very simple and easy onion pakoda recipe is from a friend. Today we will learn how to prepare South Indian Onion Pakoda following this easy recipe.

Onion Pakoda-Onion Pakora

How to make Onion Pakoda

Prep time -under 5 mins
Yields – 10-12 pakodas

Ingredients needed

Onion – 1/4 cup sliced lengthwise
Gram flour/kadalai mavu/besan -1/3 cup + 1 tsp
Rice flour -2 1/2 tbsp
Chilli powder -3/4 tsp
Hot oil – 1 tsp
Hing – a pinch
Salt as needed

Oil for deep frying pakoras

Preparation

Cut onion thinly lengthwise and keep it aside.

In a bowl, mix together onion, salt, gram flour, rice flour, chilli powder, 1 tsp hot oil and hing. Add approximately 4 tsp of water and mix well. After mixing, it will be as shown in the picture below.

onion pakoda batter preparation

Method 

Heat oil in a kadai. To check if the oil is hot enough to fry the pakodas, drop a little batter into the oil, if the batter raises to the surface immediately, the oil is ready for frying the pakodas.

Reduce the heat to medium, take a little prepared pakoda batter and drop it into the oil as shown in the picture below. Do not make balls or shape it, this pakoda should be shapeless.

Frying onion pakora

Fry until golden brown, stirring in between. Remove it from the oil and drain excess oil on a colander or paper towel.

Serve onion pokoda with a hot cup of tea, coffee or South Indian Filter coffee. 

Note – Rice flour should be half the quantity of gram flour/besan.

I am sure you will love my Spinach Pakora Recipe also and do not forget to check out my long list of Snack Recipes.

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Comments

  1. Sona S

    October 7, 2013 at 5:44 am

    yummy pakodas.

    Reply
  2. Sapana Behl

    October 7, 2013 at 8:41 am

    Crispy and yummy pakodas…

    Reply
  3. Rumana Ambrin

    October 7, 2013 at 1:12 pm

    All time favourite and very handy, when some one arrives in no time.. crispy looking pokadas..

    Reply
  4. Vimitha Anand

    October 7, 2013 at 2:24 pm

    Perfect for tea. nice one

    Reply
  5. Priya Suresh

    October 7, 2013 at 8:14 pm

    Crispy pakodas with masala chai, my prefect tea time snacks.

    Reply
    • Iceknight/Spicetruck (Nari)

      August 11, 2015 at 5:15 pm

      Just had it yesterday when it was raining!!

      Reply
  6. divya

    October 7, 2013 at 9:34 pm

    Very delicious, your clicks make it more tempting..

    Reply
  7. R

    October 7, 2013 at 11:44 pm

    Pakoras look super crispy and tempting!

    Reply
  8. Anonymous

    October 12, 2013 at 5:14 pm

    Wow! Indian recipes..
    looks like this onion Pakora gonna taste awesome in this weekend..
    My kids gonna love this pakora .
    thanks padhus

    Reply
  9. blessy priyan

    October 14, 2013 at 2:38 am

    Wow….nice. Hi padhu…pls post healthy foods for pregnant women.

    Reply
  10. blessy priyan

    October 14, 2013 at 2:40 am

    I love pakoras…..nice one.

    Reply
  11. Alekya Kakarlamudi

    December 18, 2013 at 12:21 pm

    how many days is it going to be fresh

    Reply
  12. rina k

    April 18, 2014 at 8:13 am

    I tried this recipe and wow it was so tasty. My husband loved it .
    I have never tried making pakoras earlier. This is the first time and your recipe made my day :).
    Thanks for posting such good recipes.
    rina

    Reply
  13. Pradha

    June 22, 2014 at 8:44 am

    Hi
    Thanks for the recipe. It rained last night and we were in the mood for chai pakoras. A quick look at Google directed me to your page. My first try and thanks to you the results were great. Esp the tip to have half quant of rice flour was useful for different portions of the mixture.
    Thanks again, good job, keep it up!

    Reply
  14. padmapriya g

    June 29, 2014 at 10:32 am

    nice pakodas………..

    Reply
  15. Nithya Sridhar

    July 22, 2015 at 7:18 am

    How long it can be stored? I'm staying in hostel. So whenever i go home, i can make this snack and take it with me.

    Reply
  16. Kalaiarasi Alagesan

    May 5, 2016 at 1:33 pm

    Yummy…..

    Reply
  17. Unknown

    May 29, 2016 at 9:40 am

    You are the inspiration to Mothers…

    Reply
  18. Anand Ramanan

    November 1, 2016 at 6:54 pm

    It came out fantastic! Thanks a lot. Brownie points from wifey!!! 🙂

    Reply
  19. Veena

    April 29, 2017 at 9:13 pm

    Dear padhus .. I tried this yest.. it came out awesome. . Infact I dont own a grinder and there s no maavu mill here .. so I tried to grind kadalai paruppu in the miXie and tried it.. because of that I couldn't get the perfect pakora .. but it was awesome.. wen I sent clicks to my mother.. she was telling me that.. even she didn't know how to make pakora.. he he .. all credit goes to u.. wenever my family asks me to do or ask me whether I know how to do.. I just reply "padhus irukka bayam aen " .. wow.. that's the confidence u have given us with u r receipes… I m now fully confident that If I prepare anything with the measurements u advice.. then It ll be a perect treat to the taste buds.. keep up u r good work.. padhus .. I m the one who haven't come to kitchen until 2 yrs back .. that was the time I got married. God bless u and u r family..

    Reply
  20. timothy kondracki Kondracki

    October 9, 2018 at 8:07 pm

    They turned out really good, cheers

    Reply

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