Stuffed Bread Pakora
A wholesome Indian recipe crafted for health-conscious eating: nutritious, delicious, and easy to make at home.
Potato-stuffed bread triangles dipped in besan and crisped — bread pakora with an air-fry finish.
Bread pakora is potato masala between two slices of bread, dipped in besan batter. Here it is air fried or shallow fried rather than deep fried, and it still comes out crisp.
Ingredients
How to Make It
Sandwich filling; cut triangles.
Dip in batter; air-fry or shallow-fry.
Serve with chutney.
Nutrition per serving
* Approximate values per serving
Health Benefits
Air-frying cuts deep-fry oil. Still a treat — pair with mint chutney, not more fried sides.
The spiced potato filling carries the flavour, so the batter can be thin. Air frying reduces the oil a deep fry would soak up.
Pro Tips
- →Seal edges.
- →Batter coat thin.
- →Serve hot.
- →Use slightly stale bread. Fresh bread soaks up too much batter.
- →Dip quickly and let the excess batter drip off.
- →Spray both sides with oil and flip halfway through cooking.
A calorie note
Most of the calories in this dish come from a few ingredients. For reference, per 100 g: Cooking oil: about 884 kcal (about 40 kcal per teaspoon); Besan (chickpea flour): about 387 kcal; Bread: about 265 kcal. Measure these with a spoon or scale, because small changes here move the total more than anything else. Values are rounded from USDA FoodData Central and the Indian Food Composition Tables (IFCT 2017), as of 13 Oct 2026, and vary by variety and by table. General information, not medical advice.
Variations
- 1Cheese stuff.
- 2Unstuffed dip version.
- 3Add a spoon of grated cheese or green chutney in the filling.
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