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Pakora in an air-fryer - does it work?

Pakora in an air-fryer - does it work?

A plate of 6 deep-fried onion pakoras is about 350 kcal, and most of the extra comes from the oil they soak up in the kadai. Air-fry the same batter with a quick oil spray and you drop roughly 70 kcal and skip about a tablespoon of oil, with a taste that gets surprisingly close.

12 Jul 2026 · Burnie Academy
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Pakoras and evening chai are a lovely pair. But pakoras are deep-fried, and deep-frying means lots of oil. So can your air-fryer do the job? Let's see how close it gets, and how much oil you save.

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