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Maddur Vada

5 from 9 votes
Maddur Vada is a tasty savoury snack from South India. It is ideal to serve with tea.
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
20 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 9 minutes
Course: evening snacks
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients Equipment Method Notes

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

Equipment

  • 1 bowl
  • 1 wok
  • 1 slotted ladle
  • 1 plate
  • plastic sheet

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. 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.

Notes

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, we can get it in any departmental stores. It is usually used to make sweet polis.