Vazhai Poo Vadai - Banana Flower Vadai

Its been a longtime since a new post. It was vacation time, and off we went for a whole week out. I will soon write about our vacation as well.


Here is one of the traditional type of vada, Vazhai Poo vadai.


1. Channa dhal - 1 cup
2. Red Chillies - 2
3. Sounf - 1/2 tbsp
4. Jeera - 1/2 tbsp
5. Salt to taste
6. Vazhai Poo or banana flower cleaned - 1/2
7. Turmeric - a pinch
8. Onion - 2 medium sized chopped
9. Curry leaves - 5
10. Coriander leaves - 5 tbsp
11. Coconut grated - 4 tbsp
12. Raw rice - 2 tbsp
13. Oil to deep fry.


Soak the Channa dhal and rice for 30-45 minutes. Grind the soaked dhal, rice, sounf, jeera and salt into a coarse paste. Remove the ground mix to a bowl. Now grind the banana flower, just for 2-3 seconds, say like running a wiper. Add this also to the mix.


Add all the remaining ingredients to the ground mixture and mix well. Make lemon sized balls.


Heat oil in a frying pan. Apply water on your left palm so that the dough doesn't stick to your hand. Keep the lemon sized balls on your hand, press them to make them flat to a shape of vada and shallow fry them till golden brown.


They would taste delicious! Serve hot as a snack or with rice.

Crispy Rice Wada

The weather is really good in bangalore for the whole week. Soo cold. How would it be to sit on a warm sofa and eat hot bhaji or wada? Just the thought makes me hungry. Here is something for you to try for this season.


1. Rice flour - 1 cup
2. Sounf - 1 tbsp
3. fenugreek seeds - 1/2 tbsp
4. Onion - 1 medium sized
5. Salt to taste
6. Oil to deep fry
7. Water - 3/4 cup
 
Add sounf and fenugreek to the water in a bowl and heat it for 5 minutes. Stain the water and heat it again. Add the rice powder and salt to it and stir. when it becomes thick and starts leaving the sides of the veseel, remove from heat. Add finely chopped onion and mix well.
 
Heat oil in a pan. Make lemon sized balls of the mixture, press them with your hands to the shape of thin wadas and deep fry them in oil and serve hot.
 
Easy to prepare and tasty to eat. If there are guests at home, and something needs to be prepared quick.Then, this is the right dish. It take a maximum of 10 to 15 minutes for preparation.
 
Its raining or are there guests? Be it any reason, try this out :)


Don't forget to let me know how it turned out :)