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Pavakkai Chips Recipe/Bitter Gourd Chips Recipe is given below with step-by-step instructions.

Pavakkai Chips Recipe | Bitter Gourd Chips Recipe | Karela Chips | Hagalkayi Chips | Crispy Pavakkai Chips

Pavakkai Chips Recipe/Bitter Gourd Chips Recipe is a crispy, tasty and frizzle vegetable chips recipe. It is one of the popular South Indian savoury snacks or side dish recipes. The Pavakkai Chips Recipe/Bitter Gourd Chips Recipe is given below with step-by-step instructions.

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What is Pavakkai Chips/Pavakkai Fry?

Pavakkai Chips or Pavakkai Fry is a popular South Indian snack or side dish recipe. Pavakkai Chips are prepared with a bitter vegetable called Bitter Melon or Bitter Gourd in English, Karela in Hindi and Pavakkai in Tamil.

If you are new to the "Bitter Gourd/Pavakkai/Karela" ingredient. No worries. I have already written a detailed article about it. Kindly, click the below link to check out -
🔗Bitter Gourd/Pavakkai/Karela

Bitter gourd/Karela/Pavakkai is one of my family's favourite vegetables, we would like to eat it at least 3-4 times a month. At my home, we usually use pavakkai in side dish recipes like pavakkai thokku, pavakkai tawa fry, pavakkai pitlai, pavakkai chips and many more. In this post, I have shared how to make crispy pavakkai chips at home. Do try this recipe and let me know in the comment section.

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🔗Pavakkai Pitlai Recipe/Bitter Gourd Pitlai Recipe

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How to make crispy Pavakkai Chips Recipe at home?/How to make crispy Bitter Gourd Chips at home?

Pavakkai Chips Recipe/Bitter Gourd Chips Recipe is a crispy, tasty and frizzle vegetable chips recipe. It is one of the popular South Indian savoury snacks or side dish recipes.

Cuisine - South Indian
Serving - 2
Timing - 30 minutes

INGREDIENTS

Bitter Gourd/Pavakkai - 1
Oil - for deep frying
Butter Milk - 1 cup

FOR MARINATION

Chickpea Flour/Besan Flour/Kadalai Maavu - 2 tablespoons
Rice Flour - 1 tablespoon
Corn Flour - 1 tablespoon

SPICES

Red Chilli Powder - 1 teaspoon
Coriander Powder - 1/2 teaspoon
Turmeric Powder - 1/4 teaspoon
Pepper Powder - 1/4 teaspoon
Ginger and Garlic Paste - 1 teaspoon
Salt - to taste
Curry Leaves - 1 sprig

INSTRUCTIONS

1. To begin making the Pavakkai Chips Recipe/Bitter Gourd Chips Recipe - Firstly, wash the large-size bitter gourds in running water. Completely dry the water from it and chop it into thin roundels.

2. To Soak - In a deep bowl, place chopped bitter gourd/pavakkai and sprinkle 1/2 teaspoon of water and pour a cup of buttermilk mix well and soak for 5 minutes.

3. To Marinate - In a wide bowl, add chickpea flour, rice flour, corn flour, red chilli powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder, pepper powder and salt mix well using the whisk to bring it all together.

4. Now remove the bitter gourd from the buttermilk and squeeze out excess water from it.

5. Now add bitter gourd/pavakkai to the marination.

6. Add ginger and garlic paste.

7. Now gently mix all the ingredients together.

8. If necessary, sprinkle 1-2 tablespoons of water to coat the marination with bitter gourds.

9. To Fry - Heat oil in a kadhai to deep fry the bitter gourds over a high flame, once the oil is hot drop a few bitter gourds and fry them to a golden red.

10. Once the bitter gourd is fried to golden red and frying sounds subside, remove from the oil and place on the tissue paper to drain the excess oil.

11. Repeat the above 9, and 10th steps to fry the remaining bitter gourds. Finally, fry the curry leaves and mix them with pavakkai chips.

12. Pavakkai Chips Recipe/Bitter Gourd Chips Recipe is ready.

You can serve this Pavakkai Chips Recipe/Bitter Gourd Chips Recipe as a snack recipe or as a side dish for any vegetarian or non-vegetarian meals.

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