easy sabudana vada recipe | sago vada recipe | sabakki vada recipe
Recipe Snapshot
- Prep time: 540 minutes
- Cook time: 15 minutes
- Total time: 555 minutes
- Yield: 15 vadas
- Category: snacks
- Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients
- ¾ cup sabudana / sago / javvarisi / sabbakki
- water for soaking
- 3 potatoes (boiled and pealed)
- ¼ cup peanuts (roasted, deskinned and coarsely crushed)
- 1 inch ginger (finely chopped)
- 2 green chilli (finely chopped)
- few coriander leaves (finely chopped)
- salt to taste
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- oil for deep frying
Method
- in a large bowl, take ¾ cup sabudana
- soak in enough water for overnight or atleast 8 hours.
- next day, mash between your fingers and check if they are soaked well.
- drain off the water completely and rinse with fresh water for 3-4 times or till water runs clean.
- in a large mixing bowl, take soaked and drained sabudana.
- then mash the boiled potatoes. add 3 - 4 potatoes to make perfect vada.
- now add roasted, deskinned and coarsely crushed peanuts.
- also add finely chopped ginger, chilli and coriander leaves.
- some salt to taste.
- then squeeze around 1 tbsp of lemon juice.
- mash well with your hand. this is very important, as you will be squeezing off the water present in sabudana. else there are chances for the water present in sabudana to burst while you deep fry.
- make a dough and prepare small patties.
- deep fry the patties in hot oil.
- fry on hight to medium flame till they turn golden brown flipping in between.
- drain off over a kitchen towel to remove excess oil.
- finally, serve sabudana vada hot along with masala tea.
Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note
Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.