I studied engineering in Belgaum. There I got my first introduction to many Marathi dishes. Among all, my favorites were sabudana khichdi and vada. I would just gobble down these whenever I got a chance. I stopped making these in last few years as V is not a big fan. Last week I was craving for these vadas, I did not want to deep fry them, but wanted them to be crispy. So I rolled them in bread crumbs. They came out wonderful.
Ingredients: 1 cup soaked sabudana ( tips for soaking ) 1 cup boiled and mashed potato 1/2 tea spn cumin seeds 2 tbl spn chopped coriander leaves 1/2 cup peanut powder 3 finely chopped (or crushed) green chillies Oil Salt 1 cup breadcrumbs
Method: Mix all the ingredients except oil and breadcrumbs in a bowl. Make small balls from the mixture. Roll into breadcrumbs and shallow fry them. I fried them on my cast iron pan.
Serves : 3-4 Preparation time : 30mins
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I am bit confused, should I call these dosas or pancakes? Actually I wanted to make pancakes, but ended up making them spicy and more like Indian cousin dosas!. These were infact inspired by zucchini fritters that I saw on TV a while ago, which involved deep frying.
Lately, I have started using zucchini a lot. Ishaan is at a stage where he does not want to taste most of the vegetables. So I end up grating and adding them in many dishes. I am not a great fan of sneaking in vegetables for him because I want him to enjoy them as they are, but at 2 years of age(the dreaded terrible twos!) I am ready to do all mommy tactics to get him eat something healthy without fight!. He did enjoy these dosas a lot, so I was happy.
It takes about 10mins to put together batter for these. They taste really great.
Ingredients: 1 cup grated zucchini 1 cup wheat flour 1/2 tea spn chilli powder 1/2 tea spn cumin seeds 1 egg white (optional) 1/4 cup breadcrumbs (optional) Oil Salt
Method: Mix all the ingredients in a bowl and add enough water to make the batter. Heat a tava and make small thick dosas. Cook from both sides. I served them with pineapple paank . They go well with a spicy chutney.
Serves : 2-3 Preparation time : 20mins
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