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Keerai Bajji Palak Pakora Recipe Gram Flour Fritters

September 1, 2013 By Sangeetha Priya 19 Comments

Keerai Bajji Palak Pakora Recipe Gram Flour Fritters Step By Step Recipe

My Mom usually makes this Keerai Bajji Palak Pakora Gram Flour fritters when she gets sudden guest at home, just picks the fresh leaves from the garden and make this delicious light and fluffy bajjis in jiffy. The leaves I used here is

is Callaloo/Mulai Keerai or Vellai Thandu Keerai. To more about that Spinach check here. Usually this green leaf comes in very big bunch, I made Thugayal/chutney, this bajji, Keerai masiyal and one more recipe to come soon 🙂 Spinach Pesto Pasta recipes, on the whole I prepared 4 different recipes in one bunch :-).

Recipe Source :- Own

Ingredients

Fine Gram/Besan Flour/Kadala Mavu – 1 and 1/4 Cups
Green Leaves (Discard Stem) – 15-18 Numbers
Red Chili Powder – 1 and 1/2tsp or more
Rice Flour – 4 Tbsp
Asafoetida/Hing – 1/2tsp
Baking Soda – 1/8th tsp
Salt and Water – As Needed
Oil – To Deep fry

Keerai Bajji Palak Pakora Preparation

  • Clean and get ready with spinach leaves (Pic 1).
  • Start heating the oil in wide pan under low flame.
  • Meanwhile prepare the batter.
  • Mix all ingredients except oil, water and spinach (Pic 1).
  • Add water and ensure its lump free batter.
  • Check the batter consistency and salt in Pic 2.
  • Now increase the flame and make sure its hot enough by testing with few drops of prepared batter.
  • Dip the spinach leaf one by one (Pic 3) and drop it in hot oil.
  • It puff up immediately then flip another side and cook for fractions of seconds or till nice golden brown (Pic 4).
step by step preparation of Keerai Bajji Palak Pakora Recipe
  • Remove from oil and drain the excess using paper towel.

Finish your evening snack with this bajjis and cup of coffee or tea  🙂

Notes

  1. Drain the water as much as possible before dipping the leaves in bajji batter.
  2. Use any spinach with medium to large size leaves.

Recipe Updated with Recent Pictures

Keerai Bajji Palak Pakora Recipe Gram Flour Fritters

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Comments

  1. Sona S

    September 4, 2013 at 2:14 am

    Looks yummy and delicious.

    Reply
  2. Sona - quick picks/pick quicks

    September 3, 2013 at 10:01 am

    very very very tempting..cant resist …just feel like having one straight away.

    Reply
  3. Happys Cook

    September 3, 2013 at 7:24 am

    delicious and crispy bajji… yummy

    Reply
  4. Priya Suresh

    September 2, 2013 at 7:04 pm

    I want that plate of crispy bajji..With coconut chutney i can have some rite now.

    Reply
  5. srikars kitchen

    September 2, 2013 at 3:00 pm

    Perfect bhajji.. looks awesome.. nice clicks

    Reply
  6. Manjula Bharath

    September 2, 2013 at 2:37 pm

    lovely clicks and very very tempting spinach bhaji dear 🙂

    Reply
  7. S.Menaga

    September 2, 2013 at 1:41 pm

    Awesome recipe,loved the clicks!!

    Reply
  8. Shama Nagarajan

    September 2, 2013 at 1:03 pm

    delicious dear

    Reply
  9. sangeetha pn

    September 2, 2013 at 12:55 pm

    fantabulous.. They look cute n perfect! 🙂

    Reply
  10. Praveen

    September 2, 2013 at 12:40 pm

    Delicious and yummy.

    Reply
  11. Priya Anandakumar

    September 2, 2013 at 8:57 am

    Super delicious bajji dear, love the clicks..
    On Going Event: WTML Sep 2013 @Priyas Virundhu

    Reply
  12. Rumana Ambrin

    September 2, 2013 at 7:12 am

    so perfectly cooked and looks very tasty…

    Reply
  13. Dipti Joshi

    September 2, 2013 at 5:58 am

    I have never tried fritters with these leaves. I too grow these leaves..will make this for evening snack.

    Reply
  14. Shruti

    September 2, 2013 at 4:42 am

    One of my favorite fritters ever!!! Mum used to make this for krishna's rajbhog 🙂 I simply love this one… Superb post…

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  15. Gayathri Ramanan

    September 2, 2013 at 2:28 am

    Looks so delicious..nice presentation..

    Reply
  16. Navaneetham Krishnan

    September 2, 2013 at 2:10 am

    Wow, I am gonna try this. Just perfect, crispy and uplighting spinach pieces coated in the flour.

    Reply
  17. Veena Theagarajan

    September 1, 2013 at 11:55 pm

    looks yum.. It has been a while since I did Keerai baji

    Reply

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    December 12, 2018 at 12:05 pm

    […] of Callaloo/Mulai Keerai/Thotakura/Spinach/Green leaves i bought one day :-). As I promised in Spinach Pakora/Bajji and Thugayal/Chutney recipes, today I am here with the spinach pesto pasta recipe. If you have […]

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    […] details it from scratch. Also for step wise picture of batter consistency and more, do check this Palak Bajji Recipe which I posted earlier. Its a perfect tea time snack especially during rainy […]

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