Crispy and light Batata Wada

Ingredients

For the Potato Filling you will need:

4 medium sized Potatoes

10-12 curry leaves

1 tsp mustard seeds

2-3 chopped green chilly

2-3 cloves of garlic finely chopped

1 tsp turmeric powder

¼ tsp asafoetida

oil for frying

Salt to taste

 

For the Besan (Gram Flour) batter you will need:

1.5 cups gram flour

1 cup water

2 tbsp rice flour or corn starch
Salt to taste
1tsp of baking powder 

Process

Preparing the filling:

1.     Firstly boil the potatoes till cooked thoroughly. Then mash them or grate them well. There should be no lumps.

2.     In a pan, take 1tbsp of oil.

3.     When the oil gets hot, add the mustard seeds.

4.     When the mustard seeds start crackling, add the curry leaves, chopped garlic, turmeric powder chopped chilly, asafoetida.

5.     Now add this tempered hot spices with the oil to the mashed potatoes.

6.     Add salt.

7.     Mix the potatoes with the spice mixture with a spoon.

8.     Make equal sized medium balls of the potato mixture and keep aside.

 

Preparing the vadas:

1.     Now take the gram-flour, add salt to it, baking powder, add added rice flour or 2 tbsp of corn starch to this batter as it  makes the coating crisp while frying. With water make a slightly thick batter.

2.     Dip each potato patty or ball in the besan batter.

3.   Coat the ball evenly with the gram flour batter.

4.     In a hot oil in a deep fry pan, add the potato balls coated with gram flour paste.

5.     Fry them till golden brown.

 

Serve hot