Palak Pakora

Ingredients:

• 20 - 25 spinach leaves 
• 100 gms gram flour(besan) 
• 2 tbsp Rice Flour 
• 2 green chilies
• 1 tsp minced garlic 
• 1 pinch Baking soda 
• 1/2 tsp carom seed
• 1 tsp red chili powder 
• 1 cup water
• Salt to taste
• Oil for frying 

Method:

1. Wash the spinach leaves. Drain the water and then cut the stems. Separate each leave and let them dry. 
2. In a bowl, add besan, red chili powder, garlic, green chilies, rice flour, baking soda, carom seeds and salt. Adding little by little slowly make a batter of this mixture. The batter should be thick enough to coat the leaves evenly.
3. Keep the mixture aside for 2 - 3 mins and then again beat it for 30 secs. This will make the pakoras very crisp.
4. Heat oil in a frying pan. To check if the oil is hot, put a small drop of batter if it comes up immediately the oil is hot enough.
5. When hot enough take each leaf, coat it with the batter and then slowly drop it in the frying pan. You can fry 2 -3 pakodas at a time depending upon the size. Fry them on medium flame otherwise they will get burnt.
6. Fry till the pakoras become crisp and golden brown on both sides. It will take 3-5 minutes if you fry on medium flame. 
7. Strain them and keep the fried Palak/spinach pakoras on paper towels. 
8. Serve hot with green chutney or ketchup .