Spice up your weeknight menu with this vegan sweet potato kadhi pakora recipe
Bring the flavour with this sweet and sour kadhi pakora. It’s delicious and easy enough for beginner vegan cooks
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Kadhi is a traditional Indian gravy which varies depending on the area. This variant is from Northern India, where the Kadhi has a savoury, spicy and slightly sour taste.
By making the pakoras with sweet potato it adds a sweetness which cuts through the sourness of the Kadhi.
Total Time: 1 hour
Servings: 4
Rating:
Total Time: 1 hour
Servings: 4
Ingredients
Method
Ingredients
(Servings: 4)
- For the pakoras
- 150 150 g sweet potatoes
- 22.5 22.5 g gram flour
- 0.25 0.25 tbsp turmeric
- 0.5 0.5 tbsp garam masala
- 0.25 0.25 tbsp vegetable oil
- For the kadhi
- 100 100 ml soya yoghurt
- 22.5 22.5 g gram flour
- 0.5 0.5 tbsp turmeric
- 0.25 0.25 tsp chilli powder
- 0.5 0.5 tbsp garam masala
- 0.25 0.25 litre water
- 0.25 0.25 tbsp vegetable oil
- 0.5 0.5 cloves garlic, puréed
- 0.5 0.5 tsp cumin seeds
- 0.5 0.5 tsp fenugreek seeds
- 0.25 0.25 tbsp mustard seeds
- 0.5 0.5 chillies, sliced
Method
- Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F/ Gas 6. For the pakoras, bake the sweet potatoes for 40-45 minutes until the inside is soft. Scoop out
the centres into a large bowl; add the gram flour, turmeric and garam masala, and mix well to form a dough- like consistency. - Roll the mixture into 12 balls. Add the oil to a frying pan over a medium- high heat and fry the pakoras until they start to brown. Then transfer to a tray and bake in the oven for 15 minutes.
- For the kadhi, in a bowl, whisk together the soya yogurt, gram flour, turmeric, chilli powder, garam masala and water until smooth. Transfer to a saucepan and bring to the boil over a medium heat whilst whisking to ensure there are no lumps.
- In a frying pan over a medium-high heat, add the oil, garlic, cumin, fenugreek, mustard seeds and chillies and fry for 3-4 minutes. Add this mixture
to the kadhi and whisk together. - Add the pakoras to the kadhi and warm through over a low heat. Serve each bowl of the kadhi with three pakoras.
Nutritional information per serving (327g): Calories 448, Fat 13g, Saturates 1.4g, Carbohydrate 66g, Sugars 12g, Fibre 8g, Protein 19g, Salt 0.5g
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