Bittergourd /Karela/Pakarkaai Fritters

Bitter gourd fritters is a simple and easy to make crunchy dish slightly bitter in taste which can be eaten as an accompaniment for sambhar or dhal rice.Though it is bitter in taste it has lots of medicinal values,I buy it once in a while and make stir fry, fritters some times pitlai.My son who is a picky eater likes to have this crunchy fritters.

Ingredients

Ingredient	Quantity
Bitter gourd	3nos.(big size)
Besan(kadalamaavu)	3/4cup
Rice flour	1/4cup
Wheat flour	1tbs
Red chilly powder	1tsp
Turmeric powder	1/2tsp
Lemon juice	11/2tsp
Salt	to taste
Oil	for frying

Method

                          Wash and slice the bittergourd to a thin rounds and mix all the ingredients together except oil  by sprinkling water.Keep it aside for 10 minutes.
Keep oil in a frying pan in a medium flame and fry in the oil till it becomes crispy.Drain it in a paper towel.
Serve it with sambhar rice.

Enjoy.......

• Slicing the bitter gourd in a slicer gives perfect and thin slices.
• Frying in the medium flame is very important to get crispy fritters.
• It can be baked in the oven instead of deep frying but tastes better with frying.
• Adding lemon juice helps reducing the bitter taste and can be substituted with amchur powder.
• It can be stored in an air tight container after cooling down completely and stays crispy for a day.
• Instead of red chilly powder sambhar powder can be used.

Posted in: Snacks,Vegetable Poriyal/Fry