Sabudana Vada

Instructions

1. Wash the Sabudana a few times in good quantity of water. In a vessel soak the Sabudana along with the water for at least 3 – 4 hours.
2. In case you don’t have roasted, salted peanuts at home, simply take the regular peanuts and roast them over medium low heat in very little oil. After roasting add required amount of salt, let it cool. Then pulse grind into a course powder with the help of a grinder/processor. For the best result, you may use a mortar and pestle for crushing the peanuts if you have one at home.
3. In a bowl add the sabudana along with the mashed potatoes, grated ginger, chopped green chillies, crushed peanuts, Amchur powder, salt to taste, finely sliced curry leaves, chopped coriander leaves. Mix all the ingredients well together.
4. Before beginning to shape the mixture into vadas grease your plams with oil. Next take a small portion of the mixture into your palms roll it into a ball and then flatten them into the shape of a tikki/kabab. Now with the help of your index finger make a hollow at the centre to make your vedas look like medu vadas or mini – doughnuts. Else you can keep the shape of the vadas simple by sticking to it’s tikki shape.  Repeat till the rest of the mixture is shaped into vada.
5. Heat oil in a pan for deep frying over medium flame. Slide in the raw vadas into the hot oil. Fry them in small batches till they are crispy and golden brown in colour. Serve hot accompanied by the chutney of your choice, be it mint, tamarind or dahi.