Bread Pakora (Fried Mashed Potato Sandwich, Street Style)
A giant triangle that rises from the sea of oil! Fried Spicy Mashed Potato Sandwich
Description
A heavy snack loved on station platforms across India, sandwiching spiced mashed potatoes between sliced bread, dunking heavily in chickpea flour (Besan) batter, and deep-frying whole.
Restaurants serving Bread Pakora (Fried Mashed Potato Sandwich, Street Style)
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Recipe
Ingredients
- Sliced bread
- Potato
- Chickpea flour
- Turmeric
- Ajwain
- Cumin
- Frying oil
Instructions
- [For
- Servings/Ingredients]
- sliced breads,
- potatoes,
- tsp cumin seeds,
- tsp Garam Masala,
- green chili, cilantro, Batter (100g Besan flour, 1/
- tsp turmeric, 1/
- tsp ajwain, water), Frying oil,
- tbsp green chutney.
- Knead cumin, Garam Masala, green chilies, cilantro into boiled/mashed potatoes making spicy potato filling.
- Lay
- breads on stall board, thinly smear mint chutney on one, thickly pack potato filling seamlessly on the other, sandwiching them.
- Cut diagonally into giant triangles.
- Dunk this triangle sandwich heavily into 'yellow gooey batter' of chickpea flour (Besan), turmeric, ajwain, salt dissolved in water, covering bread completely.
- Quietly drop into boiling cauldron oil, fry fragrantly while pouring oil with ladle until surface batter puffs crispy golden. Drain oil onto newspaper; one bite reveals fluffy bread and piping hot spice potatoes with steam from inside the crispy batter—calorie violence.
Learn more Spice, substitutes, tips
Key spices
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
Croquette burger (spice feel differs but as carb combo sub)
Pairing
Hot Masala Chai、Coffee
Trivia
[Hardcore] 'Pakora' is fritter, 'Bread' is sliced bread. In Indian train travel, buying this Bread Pakora and paper-cup Chai on morning platforms is a staple routine. Invariably putting 'Ajwain (digestion-aiding spice)' in the batter is ancestors' wisdom to eat such heavy food without stomach upset.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Eating] Tear the edge of the burning-hot fresh-fried Pakora, soak stickily in served tamarind sauce, neutralizing oil with sweet-sourness while washing down with Chai!
Allergen
Wheat, Soy (Chickpeas)