Ingredients:

• 500 g – besan/gram flour
• 300 g – minces meat/kheema
• 1/2 tsp – Turmeric powder
• 1 tsp – chilli powder
• salt
• Coriander leaves
• 2 green chillies, finely chopped
• 1 finely chopped, Onions
• oil
• 1/2 tsp – shahjeera
• juice of 1 Lemon
• 1/2 tsp – ginger-garlic paste

Method:

1. Make a smooth batter of besan, a pinch of salt and turmeric for making pakoras.
2. Leave some batter for usage later on.
3. In a deep pan, heat oil, make pakoras of above mixture and fry.
4. Once the pakoras are done allow them to cool.
5. Make a powder of these pakoras in a blender (ensure that powdered mix is not too fine).
6. In a separate wok, heat oil add shahjeera, allow it to splutter
7. Add onions and fry until golden brown.
8. Add the minced meat or kheema, red chilli powder, coriander leaves, salt, ginger-garlic paste and turmeric.
9. Cook until the kheema/minced meat is tender or cooked thoroughly.
10. Now add lemon juice.
11. In a separate vessel, add the pakora-powder and mix lemon juice and kheema.
12. Mix well and form round balls .
13. Dip these balls in the leftover besan batter and deep fry.
14. Serve with pudina chutney.

Recipe courtesy of prerna