Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, fried potatoes / bhajia. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Potato Bhajia, also know as " aloo bhaji " is probably going to be the tastiest potatoes recipe you'll ever have. These battered fried potato pieces are not only nice and crispy but also so yummy, and the secret is that they are dipped in flavourful batter. Peel and chop the potatoes very finely. Place in a bowl, cover with cold water, and leave until ready to fry.
Fried potatoes / bhajia is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Fried potatoes / bhajia is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have fried potatoes / bhajia using 8 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Fried potatoes / bhajia:
- Get 1 cup daal flour / unga wa dengu
- Get 2 tsp salt, to taste
- Take 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper (optional)
- Make ready 1/8 tsp ground tumeric (optional)
- Take 1/2 cup finely chopped Terere or spinach or dania
- Prepare 1 cup water
- Make ready 5 large potatoes boiled whole with skin on
- Make ready 2 cups vegetable oil
On this video learn my take on this tasty and popular potato dish. The secret in great bhajia dish is in the gram flour which you can't substitute with wheat. Maru's bhajia is a famous snack that is served by maru restaurant in nairobi in kenya. Basically these are crisp potato fritters or pakoras made with spiced gram flour batter.
Steps to make Fried potatoes / bhajia:
- Boil potatoes whole in water and 1 tsp salt till cooked firm, not soggy. Set aside and let cool
- Mix the daal flour, salt, pepper, chopped Dania. Pour in water slowly, mix to make batter, not too thick not too runny
- Peel the boiled potatoes and slice them 1/4 inch slices
- Add the slices to the batter a batch at a time
- Heat the vegetable oil in a large non stick pan on medium heat. Do not let the oil be too hot. Test by dropping a little batter, if it immediately fizzes and floats the oil is ready. If the oil is smoking, it is too hot, turn off heat and turn on again to medium after afew minutes.
- Coat the sliced potatoes in the batter and cook for two minutes on each side. Do not crowd the pan.
- Use a slotted spoon to remove the bhajia, set aside on brown paper to drain excess fat.
- Serve with chilli sauce or tamarind sauce
Maru's bhajia is a famous snack that is served by maru restaurant in nairobi in kenya. Basically these are crisp potato fritters or pakoras made with spiced gram flour batter. These tasty potato fritters are famous there and sell like hot cakes. Crispy bhajias made with grated potatoes, perked up with green chillies and coriander! Ensure to grate the potatoes thinly, so they bind well.
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