- Add chickpea flour, rice flour and all the spices together and mix well. Now add them to finely sliced onion along with coriander leaves. Leave aside for 10 minutes. The mixture will become moist. Now add water little by little so that the gram flour mix coats the onion. Pre heat Air fryer to 160 C. for 5 minutes. Brush the basket with oil and make small pakoda dumplings in one layer on the basket or perforated tray. Air fry for 8-10 minutes at 360 F for larger pakodas. Brush with oil midway. That's it. Take out and serve your crispy tasty onion pakoda.