Batata Vada
Community Member
March 23, 2021
Under 30 minutes
This recipe was submitted by a Tasty Community Member, and hasn’t been tested by the Tasty recipe team.Submit your own recipe here!

Under 30 minutes
This recipe was submitted by a Tasty Community Member, and hasn’t been tested by the Tasty recipe team.Submit your own recipe here!

Ingredients
for 7 servings
- 3 potatoes, [medium-sized], boiled, peeled and mashed
- 2 cups flour (250 g)
- 6 cloves garlic
- 1 ginger, 1 in (2.54 cm)
- 8 green chiles
- 1 teaspoon red chili powder
- ¾ teaspoon turmeric powder
- 4 curry leaves, finely chopped
- coriander, cilantro
- 1 teaspoon mustard seed
- 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
- ¼ teaspoon asafetida
- baking soda
- ½ teaspoon carom seeds
- oil, deep fry
- salt, to taste
Nutrition Info
- Calories 249
- Fat 4g
- Carbs 46g
- Fiber 2g
- Sugar 1g
- Protein 5g
Estimated values based on one serving size.
Preparation
- Stuffing:
- Take 4-5 medium-sized chilies, 5-6 large cloves of garlic, 1 inch of ginger and a handful of coriander in the grinder. Grind all ingredients roughly.
- Heat 2 tablespoons of oil in a pan. Add cumin seeds and mustard seeds to it. When cumin seeds and mustard seeds start crackling add asafoetida[hing], curry leaves and turmeric powder in it.
- Stir it well and add roughly grinded ginger-garlic-chili-coriander paste in it. Cook it for 1 minute on low flame with continuous stirring. Add this mixture to your mashed potatoes carefully. Also, add salt to taste fully incorporate to blend flavors. Set mixture aside.
- Coating:
- Take 2 cups of gram flour in a large bowl. Add carom seeds, ¼ tsp turmeric powder, red chili powder and salt to taste.
- Add water in small parts and mix well to make a smooth batter.
- Frying:
- Take a stuffing bowl and make golf ball-size balls of potato mixture from earlier.
- Take sufficient oil in a pan or kadhai for deep frying potato vadas. Let it heat on a high flame.
- Once the oil is hot, add 1 tablespoon of hot oil from a pan in the batter carefully. And mix well. Also, add 1 pinch of baking soda to the batter and mix properly.
- To check if the oil in a pan is ready for frying or not, add a small part of the batter in a pan using a spoon. If the batter comes up immediately in a pan, the oil is ready for frying.
- Add potato stuffing ball in batter, coat the batter properly with the help of a spoon or hand and add it to the frying pan. [While adding vadas in a frying pan, the flame should be low].
- Fry the vadas gently on medium flame. Do not overcrowd the pan. Add only 3 vadas at a time in a medium-sized pan or kadhai.
- Do not stir immediately after adding vadas to the pan, let it set for some time. And fry until they turn into golden colour.
- Fry all vedas as mentioned above.
- Fry green chilies in the same oil for serving with vadas. Add a pinch of salt on fried chilies to taste.
- Serve the potato vadas with fried chilies and peanut chutney with pav.
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