Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, ridge gourd fritters/turai pakoras. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Ridge Gourd Fritters/Turai Pakoras is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Ridge Gourd Fritters/Turai Pakoras is something that I have loved my whole life.
Combine the squeezed ridge gourd, cumin seeds, garam masala, chilli-ginger paste, rice flour, coriander, besan, til, salt and water only if needed and make dough. Ridge gourd is truly a pan-Indian vegetable. Its also commonly used in Asian cuisines in countries as diverse as Japan, Vietnam and the Philippines - from soups to stir-fried vegetables. ridge gourd is also called as tori or turai in hindi and dodka in marathi or beerakaya in telugu and Heerekayi in Kannada.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have ridge gourd fritters/turai pakoras using 16 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Ridge Gourd Fritters/Turai Pakoras:
- Take 5-6 Ridge Gourd sliced
- Get 1 tsp Salt
- Get 1 tsp Ginger garlic paste
- Prepare 1 tsp Cumin powder roasted
- Prepare 1 tsp Coriander powder roasted
- Prepare 1 tbsp Red chilli powder
- Make ready 1/4 cup Coriander Leaves finely chopped
- Make ready 2 Green chillies finely chopped
- Prepare 2 cups Gram Flour or Besan
- Make ready 1/8 tsp Asafoetida
- Take 1/8 tsp Baking Soda
- Prepare 1/2 tsp Dry Mango powder or Amchur
- Make ready 1 tsp Chaat Masala
- Get 1 tsp Fenugreek Leaves dried ones
- Get as required Water
- Prepare as required Oil for frying
The bajji is essentially made from. Ridge gourd also known as turai or heerekai ,is green in color and pulp is white. It is low in fat and cholesterol. It has excellent cooling properties and dietary fiber in it.
Steps to make Ridge Gourd Fritters/Turai Pakoras:
- Make a smooth semi thick batter with all the ingredients mentioned. Use water accordingly. Wash and peel the Ridge Gourds and slice them as thinly as possible. Or can slice a little bit slantingly giving it a rhombus shape as I did. It's up to you to decide. I have used Fan dried Fenugreek Leaves in the batter to give them a unique flavour and aroma. The recipe for the dried Fenugreek Leaves is on my account here. Do check it out, friends.
- Deep fry them on a medium-high heat in hot oil until done. Cook well on both sides turning at regular intervals for even cooking. It is a must to switch sides to cook well on both sides.
- Serve them piping hot with any Chutney of your choice with a sprinkle of some Chat Masala on top. It really gives it a nice aroma and flavour. Enjoy!
If wrapped properly in a plastic cover it can stay crisp for a week. It lowers the blood sugar level and helps in reducing weight loss. Turai Ki Sabji-Ridge Gourd Gravy for Chapathi-Peerkangai Gravy for Rice - Padhuskitchen. Ridge Gourd is known as peerkangai in Tamil, beerakaya in Telugu and heerekai in Kannada. Many of you would have made peerkangai poriyal (stir fry), peergankai chutney, ridge gourd dal.
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