Rava Masala Vada

Ingredients:
1.5 cups Medium Small Semolina / Bombay Rava / Chiroti Rave

1/4 cup Rice flour
1/4 cup Corn flour
2 medium sized Onion
6 - 8 Green Chillies

2 - 3 tsp grated Coconut

Small piece of Ginger
8 - 10 strands of Mint leaves
8 - 10 strands of Curry leaves

5 - 6 Coriander Leaves
Pinch of Asafoetida powder
Salt to taste
Oil

Recipe:

Put grated coconut, green chillies, mint leaves, curry leaves, ginger in a mixer and crush them together as shown in the picture below. Finely chop the onion and coriander leaves as shown in the picture below.

 

Put semolina, rice flour, corn flour, asafoetida powder, salt, add required amount of water and mix well. Don't make the batter too thin. Keep the dough aside for about 5 mins. Add crushed and chopped ingredients and mix well.

 

Take one plastic sheet/banana leaf. Make lemon sized balls from the mixture and pat them on plastic sheet/banana leaf as shown in the picture below. (Or directly pat it on the hand and put it in the hot oil.)

 

Keep oil in a thick bottomed vessel and heat. Put patted Vada in oil and deep fry until they turn golden in colour.

Serve hot along with any chutney or tomato ketchup.

Baale Dindu(Banana Stem) Tambli

Ingredients:

1 cup chopped Banana Stem / Baale Dindu

1 - 2 Green Chillies

Small piece of Ginger

3/4 cup grated Coconut

1 - 1.5 cups fresh Buttermilk

Salt to taste

8 - 10 Fenugreek seeds

1/4 tsp Cumin seeds

1/2 tsp Mustard seeds

1 - 2 broken Red Chillies

4 - 5 Curry leaves

1 tsp Ghee

Recipe:

Make thin round pieces of banana stem by removing its fibre content and chop them into medium sized pieces as shown in the picture below.

Grind grated coconut, green chillies into smooth paste by adding sufficient amount of water.(If it is frozen coconut, use hot water while grinding.) Add chopped banana stem, ginger and grind them together for about 2-3 mins. Add this ground coconut to a vessel. Add buttermilk, salt, water(if required) to the same vessel and mix. (If it is yogurt/curd, put it in a mixer for few seconds before adding it to Tambli.)

Put mustard seeds, cumin seeds, fenugreek seeds, broken red chillies, ghee in a pan and heat. Once it starts spluttering, add curry leaves and add it to Tambli. Mix well before serving. It goes well with Rice.