Tomato Pakodas: It is fun to eat hot pakodas for breakfast. In many homes, people make pakodas and eat them with morning tea and evening tea. Pakodas are prepared and served when guests arrive at home. Pakodas made of potato, onion, cabbage, brinjal and paneer are made in everyone’s house, but have you ever eaten pakodas made of tomato? Tomato pakodas and tomato bhajiyas are sold widely in Surat, Gujarat. If you are also fond of eating pakodas, then make tomato pakodas and eat them once. Take a quick note of the recipe of Tomato Pakoda.

Tomato Pakoda Recipe
Step 1- First of all you have to prepare the potato stuffing for the pakodas. Add 1-2 spoons of mustard oil in a pan on gas. After the oil is hot, reduce the flame to low. Add thin fennel, crushed 1 tablespoon whole coriander, some cumin, 4-5 green chillies, 1 inch grated ginger in oil and cook on low flame. Crush 5-6 black peppers and add asafoetida and 2 tablespoons gram flour to it.

Second step- Add 2 tablespoons red chilli powder, turmeric, coriander powder, Kasuri methi and cook the gram flour with the spices. Cut 2 onions into slices and put them in oil. The onion has to be softened slightly. Crush 4-5 boiled potatoes with hands and add them. Add this masala only when the potatoes cool down. Add salt and black salt as per taste. Fry the potatoes lightly. Add some garam masala and mango powder and add green coriander.

Third step- Now we have to take tight tomatoes used for salad. Now, with the help of a peeler, make a hole in the stem side of the tomato and take out the pulp inside. Keep in mind that the hole in the tomato should not be made too big. Now fill the potato stuffing in the empty tomato with the help of a spoon. Fill all the tomatoes by pressing well.

Fourth Step- To make pakodas, prepare a thick batter of gram flour. Add salt, some celery, some asafoetida, light and red chili powder and make a solution by rubbing it with hands. Keep the gram flour to set for 10 minutes. Add 2 pinches of sweet soda and dip the tomatoes in this solution and put it in the oil in the pan. Keep the gas flame medium high. As soon as the gram flour is cooked, take out the pakodas.

All tomato pakodas are to be prepared in the same manner. Cut them from the middle and serve with green chutney or sauce. Believe me, you would have neither eaten nor seen such pakodas before. Everyone will like this taste of pakoda.