Crispy and delicious Stuffed Bread Pakoda – a lip smacking street food from Mumbai.
I have been looking forward to making this week’s street food recipes ever since I made the list for the mega marathon. After yesterday’s Mexican street food, today I made a lip smacking treat from Mumbai. These crisp and delicious Bread Pakoda are absolutely delicious and perfect to make at home and enjoy with some tea.
I have to confess that my knowledge of street food is mostly theoretical, i.e., from various blogs and from cookbooks. I enjoyed an occasional pani puri, samosa chaat, pav bhaji in Hyderabad but that was the limit of it. But after I started blogging, all the delicious street food recipes I came to know really appealed to me. So I started to make them right at home.
I remember my mom making these at home in which she dipped bread in a chickpea batter and fried until golden. But this stuffed version has a potato filling stuffed between two slices of bread, then dipped in batter and fried. These bread pakoda are served with green chutney and/ or ketchup for a delicious afternoon snack.
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Stuffed Bread Pakoda
Ingredients
For the Potato Stuffing:
- 2 tsp Oil
- ¼ tsp Mustard seeds
- ¼ tsp Cumin seeds
- 1~2 Green Chili, finely chopped
- 1 Mashed Potato (1 small potato, boiled and mashed)
- ¼ cup Green Peas
- To taste salt
- 2 tsp lemon juice
For the Pakoda:
- 8 Bread Slices (I used Oatmeal, but white or wholewheat will also work)
- ½ cup Besan (Chickpea flour)
- 2 tbsp rice flour
- ½ tsp Red Chili powder
- ¼ tsp Ground Cumin
- To taste salt
- As needed Oil, for deep frying
Instructions
- Heat oil in a pan, add cumin and mustard seeds and once the seeds start to splutter, add the green chilies and mashed potato. Add the green peas and salt. Mix well and cook for 4~5 minutes. Turn off the heat and stir in lemon juice. Set aside to cool.
- In the meantime, whisk besan, rice flour, red chili powder, cumin and salt in a mixing bowl. Add water to make a thick batter. Make sure there are no lumps.
- Heat oil for deep frying.
- Spread 2~3 tbsp of potato mixture on a bread slice. Top it with the other bread slice. Press lightly and cut the bread in half diagonally. Dip in the prepared chickpea batter and deep fry until golden all over. Repeat with the remaining bread slices and the potato stuffing. Serve hot with ketchup or green chutney.
Vaishali
Pavani come down to Ahemdabad , I will take you on a Street Food tour and seriously you will go crazy ! I , myself am shocked that in spite of me knowing so much on Indian street food,I still need to explore and eat soooo much more !
The street bread pakora has so many versions , of course nothing like the stuffed one ! I also like your mom’s version which is actually the original !
Srividhya Gopalakrishnan
My street food knowledge is also theoretical. Never traveled much in India… But I enjoy all the virtual treat the bloggers provide and this one is definitely a virtual treat as well. Great share Pavani.
Harini
Love this loaded bread pakora, Pavani. I am also like you. I have never tried out street food in hyderabad except for occasional stuff like you mentioned. But off late, I have tried a wide variety of street foods at friend’s places 🙂
Sharmila - The Happie Friends Potpourri Corner
The stuffed bread pakoda sounds cool.. next time i will try preparing your way!!
kalyani
oh my ! its abut 15 mins to my dinnertime and this snack has totally whetted my appetite… I have seen this more often in delhi street carts than mumbai. it doesnt matter coz its a cracker of a recipe, everytime 🙂
Priya Suresh
I would like to go and explore street foods exists in our Indian cuisine. Hope a day i will go for a tour to explore some unknown street foods. Bread pakoda rocks Pavani, my mouth is just watering here.
Sandhiya
Love the stuffing goes in between the bread. It must be more delicious than the regular bread pakoras. I have tasted this pakoras few times, still i’m yet to try my hands on it. Perfect snack to munch on with tea !!!
Gayathri Kumar
Even I didn’t get to tatse street food until my visit to Delhi. Otherwise it is some occasional bhel puri and pani puri. Delhi changed my view on street food and when ever I see a chat recipe I feel nostalgic. This stuffed bread pakora is so awesome and I am sure it is super tasty..
sapna
We have similar street food in Delhi too but as Vaishali said there are endless versions. My family loves the potato stuffed over the omani ones sand I serve them with tamarind and mint chutney. Yours looks so yummy and tasty.
Srivalli
The pictures are simply out of the world pavani!..really awesome and I so love this one..we often make this at home and to be truthful never tried it outside, even during our Delhi Street food walk, I avoided eating it while enjoyed looking at the cook making it..you surely have got it done so perfectly!
Mayuri Patel
I fell in love with this fried bread pakoda when I first saw it on a cookery show on the tv. I made it at home and enjoyed it with masala tea. Its been ages since I’ve made them. They make such a delicious satisfying and chatpata snack.Love your idea of adding peas too.
Sandhya Ramakrishnan
The stuffed bread pakoras are totally yum! I am literally drooling over the clicks. I grew up eating these pakoras and feel guilty that I don’t make enough of these for the boys to enjoy. I will make them some in the summer break.
Suma Gandlur
I don’t remember eating street food on Indian streets to be precise. 🙂 Your bread pakoda looks real tempting. The first pic is drool worthy.
preeti garg
Bread Pakora is hot fav snack in my home with tea.. Your pictures always mesmerizing me.
Padmajha PJ
We tasted a bread pakora in Delhi during our BM meet. IT was straight off the stove ans we were the vendors first customers!! IT tasted out of the world.This stuffed pakora looks equally delicious and seeing this post takes me back to the meet!
Priya Srinivasan
That looks amazing pavani, my knowledge of street food too is very bookish! the same reason i m scared to try it at home!! these bread pakoras have come out so good!!And hot chai makes a lovely combo with it!