One of the popular dish which is prepared during fasting. When mom mentioned about tasting it somewhere I vaguely remembered consuming it and it’s taste. Decided to give it a try. When I saw the ingredients list it felt more of a feasting dish than fasting dish 😅 definitely a lip smacking and easy recipe but not very healthy one! I refered a lot of recipes online and prepared it within the available time ingredients. I feel the quality of sabudana also affects the texture of vadas. Once I got a variety of sabudana which turned soggy n sticky as I soaked it. This one we got from dmart it retained the pearl texture as it swell during soaking. So take care of this point if you will be trying it for the first time like me😁
Ingredients required :
Sabhdana – about 1 cup
- Sabudana – about 1 cup
- Boiled potatoes – 4 (medium size)
- Jeera – 1tsp
- Green chilli – 3-4(depending on spicy level required)
- Ginger – a small piece
- Coriander leaves
- Salt to taste
- Oil for deep frying
Method of preparation :
- Soak the sabudana for about 2hrs. You can soak it for about 4hrs but I felt it had become soft enough to use in 2hrs so went ahead.
- Also boil, peel and mash the potatoes
- Drain all the water from sabudana and keep it aside
- Cut ginger, green chilli and coriander leaves into small pieces.
- Now take a mixing bowl. Add the sabudana, mashed potatoes, ginger, green chilli, coriander leaves, salt.
- Mix well until everything is combined well and vadas can be made from it.
- We have to use just enough potatoes to bind everything together.
- Now make small vadas from the mixture
- Meanwhile heat the oil. Once it is hot, deep fry the vadas on medium flame.
- Fry till they turn golden brown.
- Serve them hot with coriander chutney or tomato sauce.
Notes :
- We can use fried, peeled and crushed peanuts for extra crunch.