For sabudana Vadas
Ingredients
Sabudana (Tapioca seeds) - 1/2 cup
peanuts - 1/2 cup
potato - 3-4 medium sized
oil - 2 tablespoons
coriander leaves
red chilli powder - 1/2 teaspoon
salt - to taste (for vrat recipe please use rock salt instead of normal salt)
Preparation
Soak sabudana for 1/2 an hour if you have smaller ones. If you have the larger seeds you might need to soak them overnight. So plan ahead.
Boil potatoes. Take a large bowl, peel and mash them
Roast peanuts, grind coarsely in a mixer.
Finely chop coriander leaves.
Recipe
In a large bowl, combine mashed potatoes, soaked sabudana and ground peanuts.
Add finely chopped coriander leaves, red chilli powder and salt to taste and mix well.
Heat a non stick shallow pan on medium flame and put a tablespoon of oil. Traditionally sabudana vadas were deep fried but they soak a lot of oil/ ghee. So if you are using this method actually you are making them a lot healthier way.
Take smaller portions in hand and make round dumplings and put them in pan till they are cooked.
You will have to turn them in between so that they are cooked from both sides. They turn nice golden brown in color and soft inside and crispy outside.
For the recipe of mint chutney - please see my recipe for yogurt mint chutney
