Maddur Vada is a popular savoury snack from South India. It makes a good evening snack. Made with a lot of onions, it is crispy on the ouside and soft inside. It makes a good tea time snack. 

The very name of Maddur Vada is nostalgic. The long journey by train, the delicious aroma and the  loud noise of the vendors with a box full of  fried snacks and the ride which we looked forward to a lot of fun and frolic brings back many memories.

A train journey from Bangalore to Mysore is incomplete without maddur vada.  Maddur is a small town 80 kliometers away from Bangalore. It is in between Bangalore and Mysore and popular for the tasty vadas. Passenger travelling enroute look forward to these crispy vadas during the journey.

Maddur Vada is an hundred year old snack and has an interesting history. Ramachandra Budhya, owner of Vegetarian Refreshment Rooms had a tea stall at Maddur railway station. He sold idli, vada and pakoras along with tea and coffee. One day, in the year 1917, he was late in making vadas and it was time for the train to arrive. Soon, he created a fried snack with onion and a few other ingredients to serve for the passengers. It was loved by all  and the rest is history. The demand for Maddur Vada increased day by day and it turned into a big business for him. 

It is believed that Maharajas of the palace loved these crispy vadas and usually had a large container served to them. The snack belongs to all the people of Maddur and is called as Maddur Vada. 

Maddur Vada Recipe : 

Ingredients :

• 1 onion
• handful of coriander
• a few curry leaves
• 2 green chilli
• 1/2 inch ginger
• salt
• 1/2 cup rice flour
• 1/4 cup all purpose flour
• 1/4 cup semolina ( chiroti rawa)
• 1 tablespoon oil
• 1/2 teaspoon cumin
• 1 teaspoon sesame
• 1/4 cup water for kneading
• oil for frying
  

  Method :

  
  1. Cut the onion finely.
  2. Grind green chilli and ginger together.
  3. Chop coriander and curry leaves.
  4. In a wide bowl, add onion, ginger chilli paste, coriander, curry leaves along with salt and leave iit aside for ten minutes.
  5. Add rice flour, semolina and purpose flour to it. Mix well.
  6.Heat a tablespoon of oil and put it in the flour. Rub it well.
  7. Use little water to make a stiff dough. Keep it covered for fifteen minutes.
  8. Take a plastic sheet. Make small ball of the dough and pat them into a circle of medium thickness.
  9. Heat oil in a pan. Once it is hot, slowly slide in one or two, depending on the size of the wok.
  10. Deep fry on a medium flame to a golden colour.
  11. Remove and put it aside. Repeat for the rest of the dough.

Take a tip :

• Use the same measurements given above for good results.
• Do not skip onions, it lends a good  taste to the dish. 
• Chiroti rawa is fine quality semolina, you can get it in any departmental stores. It is usually used to make sweet polis.

A few other fried snacks we often like to indulge are : 

• Alasande Wada 
• Urad dal Wada

About the event : 

This month at Shhh Secretly Cooking Challenge, Seema Doraiswamy suggested to make Railway recipes.It was something nostalgic, many came up with what they usually carried and some created recipes available at the railway station. Seema has made  aloo curry and I have bookmarked it to try soon. 

Maddur Vada was in my mind since a long time. I requested my partner Preethi to give ingredients accordingly.  She had given me salt  and semolina.  Preethi thought of making tasty masala puri and the ingredients I suggested were kasuri methi and sesame seeds. The pictures of dishes are shared in the group and ingredients are later guessed by the other members in the group. 

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