SAKKAT VaDa varieties

Hi friends...

How are you all? These days we are finding no time to sit and write here.. a lot of new assignments these days!!

Anyways, new assignments should not be the reason for being lazy to write the blog.. After starting our Evening snacks, we have started working round the clock. Our Vada varieties are increasingly becoming popular among our customers...

Here are some Vada recieps for our beloved customers. Try at home. And tell us if you can prepare as delicious as our cooks ;)

BATATA VADA

1. Ingredients:
   2 - potatoes, boiled
   3 to 4 - garlic cloves,minced
   1 to 2 - green chillies (or as per taste)
   1/4 tsp - turmeric
   1/2 tsp - mustard seeds
   1/2 tsp - cumin seeds (optional)
   few sprigs of curry leaves and cilantro
   salt to taste

   For the batter:
   about 1 to 1/2 cups - gram flour
   pinch of baking soda
   little salt to taste ( take care since the filling has some salt too)
   1/4 tsp - chilli powder (as per taste)

   Method

2. Add the potatoes along with the rest of the ingredients for the filling and mash them well till there are no lumps
3. Make small balls out of them.
4. Mix all the ingredients for the Batter, add some water till you get a thick batter.
5. It should be thick enough to make a smooth coating for the potato balls.
6. Drop the prepared balls in the batter, coat them with all over.
7. Drop these balls in a skillet with hot oil. Fry them.
8. Take care to see that oil is not too hot.
9. Keep it med-high and once you drop the vada inside lower the heat a bit.
10. Remove when reddish yellow.
11. Serve them either with Pav, or all by itself with some ketchup or green chutney.

VADA PAV

Ingredients:
4 - buns
2 to 3 - potatoes, large ones
2 - onions
dessicated coconut
4 to 5 flakes - red chillies
half - garlic
besan
salt
oil to fry
pinch - turmeric
cumin
mustard
udad dal
chillies
curry leaves

Method

1. First boil the potatoes and mash them and add salt
2. In oil fry cumin, mustard, urad dal, curry leaves and green chopped chilies
3. Add them to the mashed potato and mix well then make small balls of them and keep aside.
4. In a pan heat oil.
5. In a bowl add besan, salt and chilli powder and dip the potato balls we made earlier and fry them in oil and keep aside.
6. Grind dessicated coconut, red chillies and 5-6 cloves of garlic and salt and grind.
7. Now cut the bun, add chopped onions, the cocunut powder and place one potato ball on it and close the bun and serve it with fried green chillies.
8. You can serve with green coriander chutney or red chilli paste

KEERAI VADA

Ingredients:
1 cup - channa dal
3/4 cup - toor dal
1/4 cup - urad dal
4 tsp - raw rice
1 cup - any keerai cut int o pieces
4 - red chilly
water just to sprinkle
1 tsp - asafoetida
1 tsp - cumin seeds
oil for deep frying

Method

1. Soak the daals and rice for 1 hour and strain the water.
2. Grind it along with red chillies and salt.
3. Sprinkle water if necessary.
4. Add the keerai, asafoetida and cumin seeds.
5. Mix thoroughly.
6. Take a small ball of the batter and pat it in between the palm and transfer it to the pre-heated tawa with oil.
7. Let it cook till golden brown and then remove it from oil.
8. Tasty vadai is ready.

MADDHUR VADA

Ingredients:
rice flour - 3/4 cup
fine rava (sooji) - 1/4 cup
finely chopped onion - 1, big
finely chopped corriender - some
red chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
salt - 1/2 tsp
ghee (clarified butter) - 1/2 tsp
sufficient oil for deep frying

Method

1. Mix all ingredients with very little water - consistency should be the same as making pooris
2. Divide the dough into small balls (as for pooris)
3. Press each ball with fingers on a plastic sheet or aluminium foil to make flat rounds
4. Deep fry in oil, golden colour