India
Batata Vada Recipe
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Ingredients
For the Potato Filling
- 4 medium sized potatoes
- 10-12 Curry Leaves
- 2 tsp skinned spilt urad dal Black Gram
- 1 tsp Mustard seeds
- 1 tsp Cumin seeds optional
- 1 chopped green chilly
- 1 tbsp or 1.5finely chopped ginger
- 1 tsp Turmeric powder
- tsp ¼asafoetida
- leaves a few chopped cilantro/coriander optional
- oil for frying
- Salt
For the Besan (Gram Flour) batter
- 1.5 gram cupsflour
- tsp ½turmeric powder optional
- 1 cup Water
- 2 tbsp Rice flour optional
Ingredients
For the Potato Filling
For the Besan (Gram Flour) batter
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Instructions
The filling
- In a pressure cooker or a normal saucepan, boil the potatoes.
- Mash the potatoes and make sure there are no lumps.
- Place a pan over medium hear and add some oil
- Once the oil is heated add mustard seeds and urad dal.
- When the mustard seeds start spluttering and the urad dal turns brown, add cumin seeds, curry leaves, chopped chilli, chopped ginger and asafoetida.
- Stir fry the spices until they are well cooked. Take care to not burn them.
- Add the turmeric powder.
- Now, add the tempered hot spices with the oil to the the mashed potatoes.
- Add salt.
- Mix the potatoes with the spice mixture with a spoon.
- Once the mixture has cooled down a bit. Use your hands and make equal sized medium balls of the potato mixture.
- Slightly flatten them.
- Keep aside
The vadas
- In a bowl add gram-flour, turmeric powder salt and a pinch of red chilly powder.
- Add the rice flour. (optional)
- Dip each potato patty or ball in the besan batter.
- Coat the ball evenly with the gram flour batter.
- In a hot oil in a deep fry pan, add the potato balls coated with gram flour paste.
- Fry them till golden brown.
- Serve hot.