Air fryer pakora recipe | air fryer onion pakoda recipe
Airfryer pakora recipe is an easy one to make. Perfect low oil snack for tea time. Learn how to make pakora in air fryer in easy ways.
Servings: 4
Equipment
- Air fryer
- parchment paper or muffin cups.
- oil spray
Ingredients
- 2½ cup onions sliced
- 1 teaspoon Salt as per taste
- 1 cup lentil flour red lentil flour / gram flour / chickpea flour (besan)
- 1 tablespoon sooji / semolina or use rice flour (if you are using besan)
- 1-2 green chillies as per taste
- ¼ teaspoon turmeric powder optional
- ½ teaspoon red chili powder or as per taste
- 1 tbsp. coriander leaves or mint leaves
- ⅛ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼-1/2 cup water Water If you leave onions aside for long time with salt, then you need less water.
- 2 tbsp. Oil for oil spray
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
Instructions
For air fryer onion bhajis
- Slice the onions,add the salt,allow to sit for 5 minutes.
- Add the lentil flour to the mix.Add remaining ingredients with ¼ cup water,start mixing the ingredients
- Add the chopped coriander to the batter.Mix baking soda with 2-3 tablespoon water and add to the mix at the last . Add few drops of lemon juice now.
- Line the air fryer basket with a baking sheet with holes/steamer sheet.Scoop spoonfulls of mixture to fill the basket.Spray oil,brush oil or spray oil before they start to cook.
- In a preheated air fryer(5 minutes at 170 C | 340 F) ,air fry the pakoras on 170 C | 340 F for 8-10 mins
- Place them in the air fryer basket without the baking sheet,spray oil and cook further at 170 C | 340 F for 5 mins ,then turn over and cook again for 3-4 minutes or until cooked from all sides.Total cook of 18-19 minutes.
Variation - Semi cooked in water
- Mix onion and all ingredients(including baking soda), do not add any water as water will be released by onions
- Heat a pot of water, once boiling, add big spoonful of pakora batter,let it cook for 2-3 minutes,slowly take them out of the bowl
- Allow these the semi cooked onion pakora to cook down on a tissue
- Once they are at room temperature, brush them oil, preheat airfryer at 170C/340F,
- Serve hot once they are golden brown from all sides.
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Notes
You may adjust the green chillies and salt as per your taste.
You can also add anardana(dried pomegranate) seeds to the batter
perforated paper liners - You can cut a parchment paper as per your air fryer basket and make holes in that to allow the air to pass through or use the liners used for bamboo steamers.