Batata Wada Recipe
Ingredients:
- 1 2/3 cups Bengal gram flour
- 1 tsp rice flour
- ¼ tsp turmeric powder
- A pinch cooking soda
- 1tsp salt
- 1/tsp red chilli powder
- 3/4cup+2 tbsp water
Potato mixture
- 5gm ginger
- 4 flakes garlic
- 2 green chilis
- 4 medium potatoes peeled and while still hot ,slightly mashed so that some small pieces remain.
- 2 tbsp coriander leaves chopped
- 1 1/4tsp salt
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1 ½ tsp lemon juice
- ½ tsp turmeric powder
- 1 ½ tsp vegetable oil
- ¼ tsp mustard seeds
- ½ tsp split skinned black gram
- ¼ tsp cumin seeds
- 10 curry leaves
- A pinch asafoetida
Method:
- To make batter: sift together gram flour, rice flour, turmeric powder, soda and soda into a bowl.
- Add chilli powder, gradually add water, stirring constantly to make a smooth batter.
- Keep a side for ½ hour.
- To make potato mixture: grind ginger, garlic and green chillies into a paste.
- Mix ginger – garlic paste, potatoes, coriander leaves, salt, sugar, lemon juice and turmeric powder.
- Heat oil in a pan on medium heat for about 30 seconds.
- Add mustards seeds, when crackling, add black gram.
- Stir for few seconds , add cumin seeds and curry leaves
- Stir fry till gram is light golden brown. Remove from the heat.
- Add asafoetida. Add to potatoes. Mix. Make small balls.
- To fry wadas: Heat oil in deep fry pan on high heat for about 5 minutes.
- Roll 6 balls in batter to coat. Add one after the other to hot oil.
- Reduce heat to medium. Fry till light golden brown.
- Remove and drain. Fry remaining balls in the same way, increasing heat after each batch.
- Serve hot with chutney.