Mangode Recipe | Moongode Recipe | Moong Dal bhajiya | Moong Dal Pakoda recipe | Diwali Recipes 2024
This is a detailed recipe of Mangode/ Moongode, Moon dal pakode. An easy pakoda recipe made with split green gram & vegetable of your choice. This is a fantastic teatime snack during winter & rainy seasons, crispy on the outside and soft on the inside.
During winter you can add any vegetable of your choice, spinach/ spring onion/ carrot, or broccoli.
In this recipe, I have used spring onions.
This is a protein rich dish and can also be served (in moderation) for breakfast or as a side dish.
I have deep fried the pakodas, you can easily air fry this at 180 deg for at least 10-12 mins.
There is no soda in the recipe.
Happy cooking!
- 1 cup split green moong dal
- 3 cups Water for soaking
- 1 Small onion (Chopped)
- 3-4 Spring onions (Chopped)
- 3 tablespoons Fresh coriander leaves (Chopped)
- 2 Fresh green chillies (optional)
- 1 tablespoon Ginger
- 1 tablespoon Amchur/ Dried mango powder
- 1 tablespoon Salt (as per your taste)
- 1 teaspoon Black peppercorns (Crushed)
- Oil For frying
- 1 pinch Hing
- 1 Whole red chilli, Sliced
- 1 tablespoon Fennel Seeds
- 1 tablespoon Coriander Seeds
- 1 teaspoon Jeera
Dry roast all the spices listed under the ingredients section as "Dry spices for the dal" in a small pan for 1 min.
- Now in a mortar & pestle hand pound all the dry spices coarsely and keep aside.
Wash the dal thoroughly under water, till the water runs clean and then soak it in a large bowl for 3-4 hours.
- Once the dal is soaked well, drain off the water and transfer the dal to a mixer jar. make sure not to remove the skin of dal. Add the ginger at this point.
Grind the dal to a coarse paste without adding water, in case you find it really hard to grind the dal, add max 2-3 table spoons of water.
- Pour the ground dal into a large bowl and beat in one direction ,without changing the direction for at least 1 minute, dal should be airy & little light.
Now to this dal except SALT add all the ingredients listed under - "Vegetables & herb for the dal (Onions, spring onion, coriander leaves, green chillies, amchur powder, hing, black pepper ).
Make sure to add salt in the last to prevent vegetables from releasing water. Else it will become difficult to fry then.Now add all the dried roasted ground spices to this dal mix and mix well.
Now add salt to this mix
Make sure to add salt in the last to prevent vegetables from releasing water. Else it will become difficult to fry then.Now once the oil is hot, put the heat to medium and put small ball sized pakodas in the oil.
Deep fry both sides to cook evenly on medium heat, if the heat is high , pakodas will remain raw from the inside.
If air frying, air fry for at least 10-12 min at 180 deg C
Drain on a blotting paper & serve with green chutney.
- Soak the dal well for easy grinding
- Add salt in the last to avoid excess moisture in batter.
- Adding vegetables make the akodas softer but ensure you squeeze the vegetables well before adding to the dal mix.
- Deep fry both sides to cook evenly on medium heat, if the heat is high , pakodas will remain raw from the inside.
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