Karela Chips Recipe | Bitter gourd Chips
Tasty and Healthy Chips with all 4 basic taste , sweet , salt , bitter and sour together makes this one of the most tasty snack .
Servings 3 People
Calories 132kcal
Ingredients
- 2 large Bitter gourds / Karela
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- ½ teaspoon Turmeric Powder
- ½ tablespoon Tamarind pulp soaked in ¼ cup water to extract juice
For Batter
- ¼ cup Gram flour / Besan
- 1.5 tablespoon Rice flour
- 1.5 teaspoon Red chilli powder
- ½ teaspoon Jaggery powder
- ½ teaspoon Jeera / Cumin powder
- ½ teaspoon Dry mango Powder , optional
- ¾ teaspoon Salt or as required
- Water as required
- 1 tablespoon Olive oil or any cooking oil
- 1 pinch Hing/ Asafoetida
Seasoning
- 2-3 sprigs Curry Leaves
- 1 teaspoon Oil
- ½ teaspoon Salt
Instructions
- Trim edges of bitter gourd and cut bitter gourd into thin slices.
- In a bowl add sliced bitter gourd, add salt, turmeric powder, tamarind juice and mix well. This is optional step.
- Set aside for minimum 30 minutes or more, preferably 60-90 minutes is better.
- After 60 minutes, squeeze out excess juice and remove the bitter gourd slices onto a plate.
- Remove matured / hard seeds from the bitter gourd slices and retain tender seeds, if any.
- Preheat oven to 200 deg celsius.
- In a mixing bowl, add gram flour , rice flour , red chilli powder , cumin powder , dry mango powder , salt , jaggery , asafoetida and mix well.
- Add water part by part gradually and whisk well to get a flowing consistency batter (not thick, nor thin) as shown in the video.
- Add 1 tablespoon of oil and mix well.
- Now slide in bitter gourd slices and mix well such that batter coats bitter gourd slices.
- Arrange the batter coated bitter gourd on greased parchment paper and bake for 25 -30 minutes in preheated oven at 200 deg Celsius. Alternatively, you can also deep fry in oil till its crisp.
- Whilst, take 2-3 sprigs of curry leaves in a bowl, add 1tsp of oil and ¼- ½ teaspoon of oil, mix well and set aside.
- Halfway, when the bitter gourds are baked for about 18- 20 minutes, remove from the oven. Flip to the other side, spread curry leaves on top and bake for another 4- 5 minutes till curry leaves and bitter gourds are crisp.
- Remove from oven and serve along with coffee / tea .
Video
Notes
- Following the same recipe , you can deep fry bitter gourd to make chips. Fry on medium heat ,till it is crisp. It takes some more time to get crunchy.
- If Tamarind is not available , Use Lemon Juice to soak Bitter Gourd slices ,it helps to remove bitterness from Bitter gourd.
Nutrition
Calories: 132kcal