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Friday, October 07, 2011

Cashew Packora

Cashewnuts are shallow-fried with spiced besanflour coating.Try this tasty and easy-to do cashew packora recipe at home.I found Aachi bajji bonda mix very aromatic and extra-ordinary.I f u don't like trying with it,use plain or the besan flour which U find good enough.Enjoy ur teatime.Bon Appetit!.

Cashew Packors - Cashewnuts shallowfried with besanflour coating
Ingredients

    20 cashews - broken into halves
    1 cup Gram Flour (kadalai mavu) or Aachi Bajji bonda mix
    1/2 tsp chilli powder
    a pinch of asafoetida powder
    abt 1/2 cup water
    2 cloves of garlic - crushed
    few coriander leaves
    3 curry leaves
    1/2 tsp Salt
    1 tbsp butter
    200 ml refined oil

Directions

    1.Mix the gramflour with garlic cloves,salt,chilli powder and water.Mix well so that no lumps should form.The batter should be thick .
    2.Add the cashewnuts to gramflour batter and Mix well.
    3.Heat oil in the frying pan.Put the gramflour batter as shapeless pieces in oil and shallow fry on bothsides in oil,till golden brown. Similarly make all the pakoras.
    4.Hot and fresh Cashew Pakoras are now ready to be served with tomato ketchup or coconut chutney.

16 comments:

chef and her kitchen said...

1st time here..love these pakoras very much

Daisy Roshan said...

superb recipe...the flavor of cashew and gram flour would have given an awesome taste...

chow and chatter said...

oh this is a fun snack thanks so much for visiting my blog my hubby is from Chennai

Neha said...

Lovely recipe...Perfect evening snack...

Julie said...

perfect muncher..nice recipe!!

Jehanne said...

this looks so delicious, cashews is hubby's favourite so Ive bookmarked this, thank you lots!

Kaveri Venkatesh said...

Still remember the first time I had these..they were from Grand sweets, Chennai..Just fell in love the pakoras right then...your's look so inviting

Kurryleaves said...

lovely recipe..thanks for sharing this one

Sobha Shyam said...

yum yum pakoras, nice way of giving nuts for our kids..

Nalini's Kitchen said...

crunchy and perfect for evening snack with a cup of tea.

Anonymous said...

never thought of making pakora with cashew Definitely rich and perfect with cocktails.

Unknown said...

My hubby loves this pakoras.

KrithisKitchen said...

I remember tasting this in a bakery in india... Thanks for the recipe..
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Aruna Manikandan said...

looks delicious dear :)

Reva said...

So right for the cold rainy weather... Love it..:)

Seema said...

Wow yummy pakoras.Just very easy to make.Nice I like it.Thanks for sharing .