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Dill Leaves Pakora Recipe – Suva or Shepu Bhaji Pakoras (Fritters)

January 6, 2014 By Radhika 19 Comments

Dill Leaves Pakoras Recipe

Are you looking for a crunchy, munchy tea time snack?, then these dill leaves pakoras or pakodas will be just perfect for you especially on a cold evening. Dill leaves are known as suva or shepu bhaji up North, and are available at large, but where I’m, these are a very rare find and when I found a fresh bunch of dill leaves in the veggie shop, I simply could not resist buying them. This is the first time I’m cooking with these leaves. The leaves are fern like and the aroma is just mind blowing. The kids at home found it a bit over powering while I was cleaning them, so I wanted to make a snack to be on the safer side instead of making a dal or stir fry with these leaves. They are also used in salads both for health reasons and for their aroma.  I’m yet to try it though. But these dill leaves pakodas (Fritters) are to die for as they were so crisp and yummy.
Dill Leaves Pakoras These pakoras are vegan and gluten free and is healthy despite being deep fried. Unlike the regular pakodas these full of the aroma of dill leaves and when cooked though the kids were quite happy to munch them as it was not that over powering. I do wish I get these leaves regularly at the veggie shop where I shop near my place.
So do give it a try and I’m sure you also will like them and instead of the same old pakodas these will make a nice change as well.

Suva Bhaji Pakora

Dill Leaves Pakora Recipe

Prep time: 10 mins  |  Cook time: 15 mins  |  Serves: 4
Recipe Cuisine: Indian  |  Recipe Category: Snacks

Dill Leaves pakora recipe

Ingredients:

  • Dill leaves (suva/shepu bhaji) – 1 cup
  • Besan (gram flour or chick pea flour) – 1 cup
  • Rice flour – 1/4 cup
  • Baking soda – 1/8 tsp (optional)
  • Ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp
  • Red chili powder – 1 tsp
  • Turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp
  • Onion, large – 1
  • Green chili – 2
  • Fennel seeds – 1/4 tsp
  • Salt – to taste
  • Oil – to deep fry

Instructions:

  1. Chop the onions into juliennes. Finely chop the green chilies.
  2. Wash and roughly chop dill leaves.
  3. In a mixing bowl, mix together onion, green chilies, ginger garlic paste, dill leaves and salt. Keep aside for 10 mins.
  4. In another bowl mix together besan (chickpea flour), rice flour, red chili powder, baking soda, turmeric powder and fennel seeds.
  5. After 10 mins of resting time, you will find the onion mixture have let out more moisture.
  6. Sprinkle the flour mixture all over the onions and dill leaves mixture and keep mixing with your finger tips. The mixture will start to resemble like bread crumbs.
  7. If you see more dry patches of flour, just sprinkle 1 tsp of water at a time and form a crumbly dough.
  8. Heat a deep frying pan with oil. Drop a small ball of dough into the oil and when it rises immediately to the top, the temperature of the oil is just right.
  9. Drop spoonfuls of dough into the oil till the pan can hold. Cook over medium flame turning the pakoras (fritters) once or twice in the middle.
  10. Once the sizzling of the oil subsides, remove the pakoras and drain them on a kitchen paper to absorb the excess oil.
  11. Serve hot with tea or coffee.

 

Shepu bhaji ke pakore

Notes:

  1. Cook the pakoras over medium flame. As we have added dill leaves, if cooked over high flame they will get burned quickly and will give out a bitter taste.
  2. After the pakoras have cooled down completely to room temperature, you can also store them in an air tight container and they remained good for the next 2 days at room temperature itself.
  3. Adjust the green chili and chili powder according to your spice level.
  4. The temperature of the oil needs to be perfect. If cooked over low flame, they will start drinking more oil and if the oil is very hot, it will get burned.

Dill leaves Fritters

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Comments

  1. Ramya Krishnamurthy

    January 6, 2014 at 3:15 pm

    Crunchy snack.love the circuit plate

    Reply
  2. Ramya Krishnamurthy

    January 6, 2014 at 3:19 pm

    Yummy snack and love the circuit plate in background

    Reply
  3. AparnaRajeshkumar

    January 6, 2014 at 4:21 pm

    i have seen it in the shop never thought of attempting let me try and let u know soon 😀

    Reply
  4. Rafeeda AR

    January 6, 2014 at 4:29 pm

    it’s so cold here and these pakoras seem apt along with a cup of hot chai… yummy…

    Reply
  5. Veena Theagarajan

    January 6, 2014 at 5:39 pm

    looks super crispy and tasty.. Can u pass me the plate?

    Reply
  6. Eliza Lincy

    January 6, 2014 at 6:13 pm

    OMG…Look at the photo What a colourful fritters. Nice and crunchy. Superb.

    Reply
  7. Sanoli Ghosh

    January 6, 2014 at 6:32 pm

    Wow……an aromatic mind blowing pakodas……..crispy and lovely teatime snack.

    Reply
  8. Nalini's Kitchen

    January 6, 2014 at 9:52 pm

    Super crispy and flavorful pakodas,looks so tempting and yummy…

    Reply
  9. Hamaree Rasoi

    January 6, 2014 at 11:18 pm

    Delicious and lovely looking fritters. Excellent preparation. Happy New Year to you.
    Deepa

    Reply
  10. Laura @ This is Thirty

    January 7, 2014 at 4:41 am

    This is so totally new-to-me and sound delicious!

    Reply
  11. Anupa Joseph (Palaharam)

    January 7, 2014 at 11:01 am

    Super crunchy and delicious they look… I can imagine having them this winter with hot chai…heavenly

    Reply
  12. Chitra Ganapathy

    January 7, 2014 at 3:16 pm

    Super crunchy snack.love to munch some:)

    Reply
  13. Sangeetha Priya

    January 8, 2014 at 5:36 am

    tempting snack for this cold weather, love it!!!!

    Reply
  14. john redy

    January 17, 2014 at 6:02 pm

    Crunchy snacks That’s my favorite dish . Really It’s so great dish .

    Reply
  15. Rajani

    January 30, 2014 at 10:28 am

    Suva saag is very healthy as you have pointed out. Pakodas are a good way to get kids used to the flavour. Notes are very helpful too. I have a recipe with suva saag waiting to be posted too.

    Reply
  16. Salma

    November 12, 2015 at 3:22 pm

    Hi

    You didn’t mention the consistency of the batter. Should it be same as regular pakoda. .?

    Reply
    • Radhika

      November 14, 2015 at 5:39 pm

      The dough should be like the regular pakoda only. It should not be loose batter.

      Reply
  17. Sharon

    November 14, 2017 at 5:46 pm

    Thank you for this. I wanted to do something that wasn’t sabzi, not a huge fan of shepu. I might have browned mine a little bit extra.

    Reply
    • Radhika

      November 17, 2017 at 6:13 pm

      Hi Sharon, I’m not a big fan of it too. That’s why fritters instead of a sabji.

      Reply

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