Bitter gourd chips or Karela Chips is an easy and delicious crispy snack. It also goes well as a lunch side dish.
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 Crispy Bitter gourd Fry Recipe | Pavakkai varuval | Karela Chips with step by step pictures. Bitter gourd is a vegetable which is not cooked in many households at least in mine. I very rarely buy it .Two recipes which I make very often with bitter gourd is bitter gourd puli kuzhambu and bitter gourd fry.
As I don’t want my family to miss the goodness of this awesome veggies I try to include once in a while and this bitter gourd chips helps me a lot.Now let’s see how to prepare this Bitter gourd Chips.
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Bitter gourd chips Recipe
   Step by step Method with pictures:Â
1.   Chop the bitter gourd in to thin slices (The thinner the slices are the crispier the chips).Remove the thick seeds in the bitter gourd.
2.    To the chopped bitter gourd slices add in Besan flour, Rice flour and Corn flour shake well for even mixing and then add in Red Chilli powder,  amchoor powder ,Turmeric powder and Salt shake well once again sprinkle little water and mix everything so that the masala is evenly coated over the bitter gourd .Check for taste and adjust if anything is required .Allow it to rest for 10 mins
3.   Heat the oil for deep frying ,check by dropping a small piece and check if the right temperature is reached for frying .Drop in the bitter gourd pieces in batch ,and don’t overcrowd fry in a medium flame.
4.   Once the bitter gourd turns crispy and fully cooked remove from the hot oil and drain in a paper towels to remove the excess oil. Serve hot
This is actually a great munch to anybody on a cold rainy day with some chai. I have tried few microwave chips recipes which is really healthy with absolutely zero oil, Will share those recipes soon, till that enjoy this yummy bitter gourd chips J
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📖 Recipe
Bitter gourd Chips | Karela Fry
Crispy bitter gourd chips made with bitter gourd makes a perfect snack.
Servings: 4
Calories:
Standard 1 cup measures 240 ml
Ingredients
- Bitter gourd – 2 nos
- Besan flour – 3 tbsp
- Rice flour – 2 tbsp
- Corn flour – 1 tbsp
- Chilli powder – 1 tsp
- Turmeric powder – ½ tsp
- Amchoor powder – ½ tsp
- Salt as needed
- Oil for deep frying
- Water as needed to sprinkle in the bitter gourd
- Curd – 2 tbsp optional Check notes
Instructions
- Chop the bitter gourd in to thin slices (The thinner the slices are the crispier the chips).Remove the thick seeds in the bitter gourd.
- To the chopped bitter gourd slices add in Besan flour, Rice flour and Corn flour shake well for even mixing and then add in Red Chilli powder, amchoor powder ,Turmeric powder and Salt shake well once again sprinkle little water and mix everything so that the masala is evenly coated over the bitter gourd .Check for taste and adjust if anything is required .Allow it to rest for 10 mins
- Heat the oil for deep frying ,check by dropping a small piece and check if the right temperature is reached for frying .Drop in the bitter gourd pieces in batch ,and don’t overcrowd fry in a medium flame.
- Once the bitter gourd turns crispy and fully cooked remove from the hot oil and drain in a paper towels to remove the excess oil. Serve hot
Notes
-  Bitter gourd fry goes very well as a lunch side dish. It can also be served as snack along with a cup of chai.
- Â If you want to remove the bitterness in bitter gourd after slicing and removing the seeds mix with 2 tbsp of curd and allow it to rest for 10 mins it will start leaving water. Squeeze out the excess water and then continue with the rest of the process.
- Â If you prefer the bitter gourd chips more like bajji add in extra 2 tbsp of Besan flour.
-  Serve Bitter gourd chips with bise bele bath or Curd Rice .The combo is just awesome.
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Priya Suresh
Give me that plate, i seriously want to finish those crispy bittergourd fries, they are just prefect to munch without any guilt>.
Shobha
Nice and crispy bitter gourd slices.. will go well with dal chawal.
Unknown
Wow..these can be a great accompaniment aand would go well with dal rice combo.
Rafeeda AR
Somehow I can't get myself close to karela, but I have tried fried versions similar to this and like it... looks so tempting, nice to go with some thayir saadam...
Aruna
I love bittergourd and this is a great way to enjoy it.
Mayuri Patel
My hubby would love these crispy fried karela. I'm not a huge fan of karelas. Lovely recipe and will try and make it soon for hubby.
Mayuri Patel
My hubby would love these crispy fried karela. I'm not a huge fan of karelas. Lovely recipe and will try and make it soon for hubby.
Mayuri Patel
My hubby would love these crispy fried karela. Lovely recipe and will try and make it soon.
Hayley Dhanecha
I have never tried crispy karela , do they taste bitter?
Unknown
I hate karela but I have heard that if I have to start eating it, I have to fry it and have. I once taste fried karela chips and they were awesome. These look exactly the same. Will try
Unknown
Lovely recipe of chatpata and crispy bitter gourd, will go perfectly with some dal chawal.
JollyHomemadeRecipes
I love karela but never think about it to make fritters from them..how’z the taste of these fritter.. is it bitter ??
Jyoti Babel
My mom makes it in a similar way and loves it with rice and dal. I am not a big fan of this veggie though
Vidya Narayan
Absolutely love this and Bitter Gourd too as an ingredient. I recently made a sabzi with this which I will be blogging soon. At home, we consume this regularly, I know the bitterness is not loved by all, but we adore it at home. The chips would certainly vanish easily with some rice and dal. Great share, looks crispy and crunchy.
Ruchi's Veg Kitchen
I love this karela chips.. so hit at my home. Very crispy and very tasty. Looks wonderful
Maria Nasir
My husband and I, we simply love bitter gourd!Here we cook the dry version with lots of onions. I really like your recipe. Amchoor must balance the bitter taste beautifully.
Priya Satheesh
I am not a big fan of Bittergourd fry but used to prepare this for my brother whenever he visits and serve it with sambhar rice. Loved your version !
cookingwithsapana
I just finished cooking my bitter gourd stir fry. If I would have seen this post before I could make these. Well let me try it the next time I buy bitter gourd.
sujitha
Crispy bitter gourd fry.. I love this vegetable in this way..
jayashree
These looks so yumm, tastes good with rice and sambar as an accompaniment.
mildly indian
Ooooo perfect. Totally adore karela and this is ultimate
Uma Srinivas
I am a big fan of bitter Gour. This recipe is interesting, you have added 3 different flour and spices. Love to try this soon:)
Avin
I once had meal at a typical South Indian joint and they served these as a side dish along with 5-7 other side accomplishments. Just kid of made the food real tasty?
Archana
Yummy this is my favourite vegetable. Can never have enough of them.
Lathiya
This is a great way of having bittergourd..love crispy fried bittergourd
Sasmita
This is most demanding side dish at my place. Looks so crunchy these are !!
preethi'scuisine
I love fried bitter gourd. They are so crisp. Fantastic share !!