Low fat pakoras with mint yoghurt sauce

Ah, Indian food. So delicious, so calorific (which is to be expected with cream and deep fried etc) This recipe was born out of the combination of workmate having Indian for lunch leaving the office smelling of butter chicken and having left over sweet potato/ carrot mash in the fridge.

I started not really knowing what I was making other than wanting to use leftovers and make something that had curry paste in it and ended up with surprisingly awesome pakoras and a recipe that I'm going to make next time I have a craving for Indian. 

Low fat pakoras

Ingredients

1. 1/4 cauliflower
2. 1 onion
3. 3x garlic cloves
4. 1/2 can chickpeas
5. 1 egg
6. 1 cup leftover sweet potato and carrot mash 
7. 2 tsp curry paste
8. Sea salt (I used a coriander, rose and lemon one from Pinch seasonings)
9. 1/4 tsp cumin
10. Dash of lemon juice 
11. 100gm gram flour 
12. 1 spray of Olive oil

Method

1. Preheat oven to 200c.
2. Blend first 10 ingredients together to create a paste. 
3. Remove from blender and mix in gram flour to create a dough like mix that just holds it's shape (it will still be very watery) 
4. Lightly oil an oven tray
5. Shape the pakora mix into balls and place on tray. (I made ten from the mix). 
6. Bake for approx. 20 mins until firm to touch.  Serve on salad greens with mint yoghurt sauce.

Weight watchers points for two- 3 points

Mint Yoghurt sauce

Ingredients 

1. 3 sprigs fresh mint
2. 1/4 cup low fat yoghurt 
3. Lemon juice and salt to taste

Method
Finely chop up mint. Mix with yoghurt. Add lemon juice and salt to taste. Leave to sit for at least ten minutes before eating.

Weight watchers points - 1 point for half the dressing