Sabudana Vada with yogurt mint chutney

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.

When these are properly done serve hot with my favorite yogurt - mint chutney.

For the recipe of mint chutney - please see my recipe for yogurt mint chutney

Sabudana Khichdi for Vrat in microwave

Ingredients 

Sabudana Seeds - 1 cup
Peanuts - 1/2 cup
Potato - 1 large
Oil - 1 Table spoon
Cumin seeds - I tea spoon
Green Chilies - 1
Rock Salt - To taste (if not for fasting you can use normal edible salt)

Coriander - to garnish

Recipe

Preparation :

I had small sabudana (Tapioca seeds) seeds in home, soaking them just for half an hour before cooking is enough. If you have larger seeds you may have to soak them overnight.



After peeling, cut potatoes into small even pieces and keep aside.



Roast peanuts in a pan and grind coarsely in a grinder.




In a microwave safe bowl take a table spoon of oil and keep it in microwave  and turn it on for a minute.

Take out and add cumin seeds and cut green chilies to it.





put it in microwave for 1 minute again and then take it out. Add the freshly cut potatoes and a pinch of salt. Mix well and put it in microwave for 2 minutes.



While the cooking bowl is in microwave  mix soaked sabudana and crushed peanuts well you may add salt at this time according to your taste.



After 2 minutes take the bowl out and add sabudana mixture to this. Mix well.




 you will need to cook it in microwave for about 5-6 minutes again. Take it out in between once after 2 minutes stir it well so that it doesn't gets stuck together and keep it back in microwave for the rest of the time ( about 3 minutes or so).



You will know when its done as it changes colour (becomes a bit transparent and that's the sign that its cooked)



Garnish it with finely cut coriander leaves and serve hot (preferred)