Amazing Food Facts: We may like pizza-burger and other foreign things sometimes, but the taste comes only in typical Indian food. Be it traditional sweets or some such dishes, which are relished with tea. Talk about tea and don’t remember pakodas, how can this be possible. So, today we will tell you about this dish which cures small hunger. Like samosas, pakodas came from outside or the people of our country have invented crispy pakodas.
Somewhere pakoras are called pakodi, somewhere Pakora, some people call them Bhajiya and some call them Pukra or Fukra. Whether it is the rainy season or winter, everyone’s heart melts if pakoras are mixed with tea. Now the question is, how much do you know about these dumplings? We mean that how did the tasty potato-onion pakoras reach our plate (Pakaudi Dish Origin), let us tell you.
Pakora is pure Indian dish
Whenever you eat pakoras, eat them with pride because it is purely a desi dish. In Sanskrit it is called “Pakkavat”, which can be mentioned in the Vedas and Puranas. Pakwa means cooked here and vata means small pieces. Pakoda is basically a vegetarian dish, but after the arrival of the Mughals, the royal chefs made pakoras ranging from egg to chicken, mutton. In the meantime, it became Pakora from Pakkavat. In Dravidian i.e. Tamil language, it always remained Pakoda but it was known by different names in different parts. In Andhra, Maharashtra and Karnataka it is called Bhajji or Bhajiya.
The royal cooks made pakodas ranging from egg to chicken and mutton.
When are our favorite potato bhajis made?
In our country, people like potato-onion fritters very much, but they were made for the first time when the Portuguese brought potatoes in the 16th century. Potato and onion fritters are most liked in our country. Apart from our country, people like this dish very much till Britain and America. It is also sold as street food in China, Afghanistan, Malaysia and Nepal, whereas in Somalia it is also called Bhajiya. In many food chains, pakoras are sold under different names, but the surprising thing is that there is no patent for this original dish after India.
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FIRST PUBLISHED : December 28, 2022, 07:40 IST
