Sabudana VAde

Fried Tapioca Fritters

Now thats a fancy name...fried tapioca fritters.
I prefer calling it as plain old sabudana vada. Generally prepared during mom's fasting, this delightful snack is one of my favs. I love eating this with plain ketchup. Again as all sabudana dishes go, this one is loaded with carbs and fried too. So double the danger, but so worth it:)

I love eating this snack on a rainy day and curling up with a good book while munching on it and mom refilling my empty plate. But gone are those days...now i have to prepare my own food and cant even sit for 2 mins alon forget curling up w/ a book. Duckie likes this and S loves this. He likes it with plain yogurt mixed with salt and sugar and roasted cumin seed powder.

Recipe:

1 cup sabudana soaked the previous day

3 potatoes boiled, peeled and mashed

1 cup roasted peanut powder

1/2 tsp red chilli powder

salt to taste

sugar to taste

1 tsp cumin seeds

Oil for deep frying

Preparation:

Mix all the above ingredients together and form lime size balls and then flatten them into patty.

Heat a heavy bottom pan preferably a kadai and heat oil in it. When hot, turn the flame to medium-low and deep fry sabudana patty in it 2-3 at a time depending on the size of the kadai. Fry till golden brown taking care that it doesnot get burned but is cooked all through the inside.
Serve hot with ketchup or yogurt.

If you want to serve as appetizers, make smaller size patties. The trick is too make sure that vadas are cooked properly from inside and serve them hot.

Enjoy,

Dipti!!