Aloo Bhajia Recipe - Potato Bajji

Name: Aloo Bhajia Recipe - Potato Bajji
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: North Indian Recipes
Ingredients: 4 null Potato (Aloo); 1/2 cup Gram flour (besan); 2 tablespoon All Purpose Flour (Maida); 2 teaspoon Red Chilli powder; 1/2 teaspoon Ajwain (Carom seeds); null Salt to taste; null Oil as required

Madhuri Aggarwal

June 18, 2019

5063 Ratings

Time:Prep: 10 M|Cook: 20 M|Total: 30 M

Makes:4 Servings

Meal:Snack

Cuisine:North Indian Recipes

Aloo Bhajia Recipe - Potato Bajji is a common tea time snack thoroughly enjoyed by all. It is also called as Aloogadde Bajji in South India. You can find Aloo Bajji sold in most tea stalls or snack joints across India especially in the evenings.

Thin potato slices are dunked in a gram flour batter and then deep fried to get these crunchy treats. The potatoes are not flavoured or seasoned but the batter is flavoured with spices like red chilli powder and cumin seeds. You can even add some Chaat masala on the crispy Aloo Bajji before serving to make them more flavourful.

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Ingredients

4 Potato (Aloo)

1/2 cup Gram flour (besan)

2 tablespoon All Purpose Flour (Maida)

2 teaspoon Red Chilli powder

1/2 teaspoon Ajwain (Carom seeds)

Salt, to taste

Oil, as required

Instructions for Aloo Bhajia Recipe - Potato Bajji

To begin making Aloo Bajia, wash and peel the potatoes. Cut them into thin slices and immerse them in a bowl of water till you prepare the batter for the bajia.

Heat the oil in a kadai on medium flame.

To make the bajji batter

In a mixing bowl, combine besan flour, maida, red chilli powder, ajwain and salt along with 1/3 cup of water. Mix well to a make a smooth batter. Add a tablespoon of hot oil to this and mix it well. This step will ensure the bajias are crisp.

Add few slices of potatoes to the batter and make sure the potatoes are covered with the batter.

Once the oil is hot, pick up each potato slice from the batter, remove excess batter and drop them carefully into the oil.

Fry them on both sides till it is golden in colour.

Drain them and put them on kitchen towel to remove excess oil.

Transfer the fried bajias to a serving plate and serve.

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