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    How to make Bread Pakora. The Savoury Indian Style French Toast

    Published: Mar 2, 2022 · Modified: Oct 30, 2022 by Chef Tripti · This post may contain affiliate links

    This lovely little breakfast idea is like french toast, but it is savoury, and the batter is gram flour instead of eggs and milk. This bread pakora recipe never fails to invoke memories from my childhood. The taste and smell transport me straight back to breakfast before school. The sense of smell can evoke intense and vivid memories. This recipe reminds me of the carefree days of my childhood when life was simple.

    Plate with a pile of three bread pakora topped with chutney
    Bread Pakora

    This bread pakora or battered bread is a surefire choice for a quick breakfast or snack. The key ingredient in this recipe is gram flour. Gram flour is a versatile ingredient; you can turn it into a cake, pancake, sauce or even something like paneer or tofu. Because of its versatility, it has a permanent home in my store cupboard. I highly recommend you let it take up residence in your cupboards too! If you are team savoury, this recipe will soon become your go-to because it's so easy with a minimum of ingredients.

    Here are my other gram flour recipes: Palak paneer with gram flour tofu; Homemade gram flour paneer;Jimmikand in gravy; and Kadhi.

    Also, why not try my other savoury breakfast recipes? Buckwheat pancakes with vegan cream cheese and avocado or dalia upma.

    Another recipe idea to upgrade some slices of bread into a tasty treat is my bread and butter pudding with feta and pesto

    Right then, let's cook.

    Jump to:
    • Ingredients
    • Instructions
    • How To Video
    • Substitutions
    • Equipment
    • Storage
    • Top tip
    • 📖 Recipe
    • Food Safety

    Ingredients

    Bread pakora ingredients in small glass dishes. Annotated
    Bread Pakora Ingredients
    • Gram flour
    • White bread slices
    • Fresh coriander
    • Carom seeds
    • Kala namak
    • Red onion
    • Olive oil

    See the recipe card for quantities.

    Instructions

    This bread pakora recipe is quick and easy.

    First, prepare your ingredients. Finely chop the red onion and green chillies, and fresh coriander stems. Roughly chop the coriander leaves.

    Then make the gram flour batter. Slowly mix the water with the gram flour in a bowl and whisk to a smooth batter. The consistency of the batter is a slightly thinner version of the pancake batter.

    Gram flour better in a glass bowl
    Gram Flour Batter

    Add the red onion, green chilli, fresh coriander, carom seeds and kala namak to the batter and mix thoroughly.

    Brush a frying pan with oil and heat over medium heat.

    Take the slices of bread and thoroughly coat both sides with the batter.

    Bread slice coated in gram flour batter for bread pakora. In a glass dish.
    Coating The Bread With The Batter

    Transfer the coated bread to the hot frying pan and fry until golden brown (about one or two minutes). Flip the bread and fry the other side for a minute or two.

    Bread pakora frying in a pan
    Bread Pakora Fried

    Repeat the above with the other coated bread slices.

    Serve with ketchup or sonth chutney. This chutney is tamarind, dry ginger and jaggery chutney.

    How To Video

    Here is a video guide to making your bread pakora recipe.

    How To Make Bread Pakora

    Substitutions

    This Gram flour battered bread is a blank canvas. You can put your stamp on it by choosing the herbs and spices you wish to add. I have used red onion, coriander and carom seeds to flavour it.

    I have used white sliced bread, but you can use any sliced soft bread.

    Gram flour and chickpea flour are similar but not the same. For this recipe, you can replace the gram flour with chickpea flour. Be careful when adding water; otherwise, you may have a very thin batter. The batter must be a coating consistency, so it shouldn't roll off the spoon easily. It is similar to a pancake batter, only a bit thinner.

    If you do not have carom seeds, you can replace them with cumin seeds or powder. If you have neither, you can use oregano; the flavour is similar to carom seeds.

    Equipment

    As always, I highly recommend using a digital scale for measuring.

    Storage

    These battered slices of bread can be kept in the fridge for up to three days in an airtight container. They can be eaten cold or reheated in a frying pan.

    I do not recommend freezing.

    Top tip

    To ensure that the gram flour batter has no lumps, don't add the water all at once. Gradually add the water between whisking until no dry bits of flour are left and you have a smooth batter.

    If you end up with lumps, pass through a sieve to remove the lumps.

    📖 Recipe

    Bread pakora topped with chutney on a brown plate

    Bread Pakora Recipe

    Chef Tripti
    Gram flour battered pan fried bread slices
    5 from 2 votes
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    Prep Time 15 minutes mins
    Cook Time 15 minutes mins
    Total Time 30 minutes mins
    Course Breakfast, Snack
    Cuisine Indian
    Servings 2 people

    Equipment

    • Digital scales

    Ingredients
      

    • 4 White bread slices
    • 150 gms Gram flour
    • 180 ml Water
    • 50 gms Red onion
    • 2 Green chilli
    • ¼ teaspoon Carom seeds
    • 1 teaspoon Kala namak
    • 25 gms Coriander
    • 2 tsp Olive oil

    Instructions
     

    • In a bowl add the gram flour and slowly add the water and whisk into a smooth batter.
    • Finely chop the red onion and green chilli.
    • Finely chop the coriander stems and roughly chop the leaves.
    • Add the chopped red onions, chillies, coriander, Kala namak and carom seeds to the gram flour batter and mix thoroughly.
    • Heat a frying pan ( preferably non-stick) over medium heat and brush with oil.
    • Dip the bread into the batter and coat both sides. Transfer the coated bread into the hot frying pan and fry for about a minute or two until golden brown, then flip to fry the other side.
    • Repeat with all the other slices.
    • Serve hot with coriander and sonth chutney (tamarind, jaggery and dry ginger) or by itself with tomato ketchup.
    Keyword comfort food, quick meals, vegan
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    Food Safety

    In a professional kitchen, food hygiene and safety is a top priority, and from the very beginning of training, I practised good habits and routines. Of course, it is also very, very important to practice good food hygiene and safety at home. Here are some fundamental practices to adopt in the kitchen

    • Wash your hands regularly while preparing, handling and cooking food
    • Wipe down counter tops and high contact points regularly
    • If you cook meat and fish, do not use the same utensils on cooked food, that previously touched raw meat. Use separate chopping boards for meat and fish. Wash your chopping boards immediately after use.
    • Thoroughly cook food to a minimum temperature of 165 °F (74 °C)
    • Don't leave food sitting out at room temperature for extended periods (more than 2 hours)
    • Store food correctly

    For more details of food hygiene and safety in the home, visit the UK Government's Food Standards Agency webpage.

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    1. Antara

      March 03, 2022 at 2:00 pm

      5 stars
      This was so good! made it for breakfast this morning after an an amazing workout! this will definitely be something I will make again and again!

      Reply
      • Chef Tripti

        March 07, 2022 at 9:40 am

        Thankyou Antara!

        Reply
      • Chef Tripti

        March 07, 2022 at 9:41 am

        Thank you very much! I like to share simple recipes that don't compromise on taste! appreciate your feedback

        Reply
    2. Tabby

      March 03, 2022 at 11:07 pm

      5 stars
      Amazing! New favourite meal I love it! I reckon there could be an amazing sweet version with some Indian sweets 🤤 🙏

      Reply
      • Chef Tripti

        March 07, 2022 at 9:42 am

        Thank you! I will think about a sweet version - watch this space!

        Reply

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