As a kid I always had trouble eating vegetables and I remember amma taking all pains to make different types to sneak in the veggies. This is one of the kind but beetroot is always my favourite. Hope you enjoy this as much as I do/did 🙂 Beetroot either as halwa or even as a simple poriyal, I just love it.
Beetroot Pakoda Recipe – Ingredients
- Beetroot – 2 medium sized (comes to 1 cup after grating)
- Ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp
- Besan flour – 3 tbsp
- Rice Flour – 2 tbsp
- Corn flour – 1 tbsp
- Red chilli powder – 1 tsp
- Big Onion – 2 small sized chopped finely
- Coriander leaves – 1 tbsp chopped finely
- Salt – as required
- Oil – to deep fry
Method:
Grate the beetroot finely. In a mixing bowl, add all the ingredients except oil and mix well. Beetroot itself will let out water so no need to add water. If its too dry sprinkle little water to make to the below shown consistency.
Heat oil in a kadai. Pinch small pieces from the batter, add it to the kadai with oil and deep fry on both the sides until crispy.
My Notes:
- As a variation you can add carrot, cabbage and beetroot and make it as vegetable pakoda.
- You can even add little mint leaves for extra flavour.
- Beetroot and carrot combination is best in this pakoda.
- Adding more veggies and onions makes it more tastier.
This is the best way to make kids eat the vegetable they dont take in their usual menu. You can sneak in any vegetable even greens and make this pakoda and am sure the kids will love it too.
Must try these as kids hate beetroot.
lovely color
Lovely snack to sneak in beetroot.But I love beetroot anyway–bookmarked!
Wow.. thats a very red pakoda 🙂 looks great
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Awesome yaar! I've never heard or seen Beetroot pakodas, let alone even think of making it!
What an innovation!! you are great! 🙂
Wow…Superb Innovation…Great 🙂
nice pakodas…first time keli padaren…sounds yummy!!!
wow very tempting pakodas,lovely colour…
A must try!!! Just to tempting, crunchy & mouthwatering snack!!!
Prathima Rao
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crispy,droolworthy pakodas..loved your presentation!
Looks absolutely delicious…
ho … never knew that we can make wonderful snacks out of beetroot.. they look just yummm…
hmmmm what colors sharmi i m drooling!!
Yummy snack..:)) The colour is lovely..:))
Awesome recipe dear..
Reva
love the colour! and what a great idea. i love beets in pretty much any form, especially the subtle sweetness 🙂
A must try! we can surprise our guests with such a unique snack with tea/coffee 🙂
wow….supeb evening snack
Healthy snack and bookmarked.Nice color.
perfect for a cold day like today
That is such a nice idea:-) Who can resist this colorful treats!
Wht a lovely color .. Sooper snack
Fantastic, lovely color, look so crispy and yummy..
Love the photographs… so well shot. Beautiful looking pakodas.
Something unusual and quite interesting!
Awesome pakoda
Aarthi
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Looks so colorful and delicious 🙂 I'm loving the wooden background 🙂
Lovely color and nice variation.
I should try this. I like the red color of pakoda
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Looks crunchy and perfect for tea time
super colorfull pakoda…natural colorfull …try this some time
Wow..Never heard of this before. Looks very tasty Sharmi..Will try making it. Thanks for the recipe.
Nice idea to eat beets, must try. Nice clicks.
That looks so awesome and yummy…
Wow!! Lookes awesome. Love the bright red color!
I love Pakodas and I have never seen beet root ones (and I live in India!!!!). I am trying this immediately! Thanks for sharing!
Colorful and delicious snack..love it
These pakodas look very tempting and love the color..
Very colourful…i had beetroot masala vadai too…guys try that too…
Colorful and tasty pakodas.
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Smply delicious and crispy looking pakoras.
Deepa
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Lovely color and tempting pakodas….I want to have one right away.. supera irukku sharmi.
Awesome idea…..
Beautiful colors offset the woody background. Lovely!
nice one, surely my kid will love
tried this today n came out very tasty,thanks for the recipe
Yummy….
Crispy on outside,yummy on inside,colorful,…thank u for recipe
Do you grate the beetroot raw or boil and then grate
It is grated as mentioned in the ing list
Sema idea!!!! Yummy!!!