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This Palak Vada is prepared by mixing fresh palak or spinach leaves, rice flour, semolina, fried gram flour, onion and other spices into a soft dough. Small patties of this dough are deep-fried to make these luscious vadas.
Ingredients:
Bengal Gram – 1/2 cup, soaked in water for 1 hour
Rice Flour – 1/2 cup
Semolina – 1/2 cup
Fried Gram – 1/4 cup
Palak – 1 cup, chopped
Onion – 2, peeled and chopped
Green Chillies – 3, chopped
Ginger Garlic paste – 1/4 tsp , optional
Red Chilli powder – 1/2 tsp(vary according to taste)
Cumin Seeds – 1 tsp
Salt to taste
Oil for deep frying
Method:
- Grind bengal gram into a coarse paste.
- In a mixing bowl, mix chopped palak, fried gram, onion, green chillies, ginger garlic paste, salt, cumin seeds, red chilli powder with 1 cup water.
- Add bengal gram paste, rice flour and semolina and mix well.
- Add little water and adjust the consistency of this paste such that it is neither dropping like that of dosa batter nor as hard as chapati dough.
- Take small amount of this mixture in hand and press it slightly into desired shape and deep fry in oil.
- Serve hot with tomato sauce.
