{Recipe} Sabudana Vada

"Sabudana"in Marathi or Hindi and sago in English. Sago or Sabudana are the small white pearls either big or small in size are extracted starch from the Tapioca roots which is also known as Cassava roots. Sabudana is used to prepare variety of savory and sweet dishes but mainly prepared dish is sabudana vada which is traditional deep fried snack of Maharashtra and its prepared during their fasting days. Sabudana Vada is crispy snack, healthy and has common ingredients available in our pantry. It can be a great Tea Time snack, served Hot with Chai and side can be spicy green chutney or with Tomato sauce too. Sabudana Vada's Turns to be crispy from out side and its best to consumed when hot .

                               

• To prepare perfect Sabudana vada, make sure to soak Sabudana overnight with 1:1 water ratio and morning you will get nice flowing pearls but also nicely soften.
• Potatoes have to boiled and grated so you can mashed them well with Sabudana.
• Use Roasted and coarsely ground peanuts because you don't want very big pieces of peanuts to come in your mouth.
• Make sure to keep the medium stove flame and oil shouldn't be very hot otherwise you will get burnt vada and for this reason proper heat will give you crisp Vada from outside and soft from inside.
  

  

Since Sabudana is prepared as fasting snack by the Hindu Community so they avoid  using garlic but in my recipe I have added crushed Garlic along with ginger, all other ingredients remain the same.

So lets start with the recipe of Crispy delicious Sabudana Vada's or the Sago Fritters .

Servings 6 

Total Time 10 hours

Total Coking Time : 20 min

Cuisine: Maharastrian (Indian)

Author: Ispolina Silveira

Ingredients Required

250 Gram of Sabudana/Sago (small pearls)

4 Large Boiled Potatoes mashed

200 Gram Roasted Peanuts(Coarsely ground)

1 Table soon Ginger Garlic finely chopped

1 1/2 Tsp of Cumin seeds

4 Green Chilies Finely Chopped

1/2 Cup of Freshly Chopped Coriander

Salt to taste

oil for Deep Frying

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Step Wise Instructions to prepare

1)Take Bowl and add Sabudana,Peanuts,Ginger-garlic,cumin seeds,chopped chilies,Coriander leaves chopped,salt.Then Mix all the ingredients well and mash until all gets nicely incorporate. 

        

         

                      

2.After You get dough like consistency ,take a small ball size mixture and shape into round vada shape(like a roundel).Prepare how much required Vada's and keep it in one plate.

            

3.On the other hand place a kadai or a deep pan with oil for deep frying,once oil heated keep the flame medium high and slowly drop the Sabudana vada's and fry them until Light brown in colour.

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  4.Then placed the fried Sabudana Vada's on kitchen napkin to absorb extra oil.

                     

                            

5.And there you have the crispy ,hot and soft from inside the delicious Sabudana Vada's. Serve as Tea Time snack with your favourite spicy or tangy dip either Green chutney  or Tomato Ketchup or sauce.

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{Recipe}Ragi ladoo / Finger millet Laddu

Ragi or finger millet, you all are aware of its health benefits and i don't think i have to give further details  on it.

Its been in our diet from ages but because of its colour or flavour kids or even adults don’t like it. But as we see these days how modern food impacting our health so its beneficial that we redirect to basic food which is commonly available and so inexpensive as compared to junk food.

In early life Ragi was only used to prepare rotis or porridge.  But, today you have countless recipes, you can add ragi to any recipe and make the dish healthy. Name it Ragi dosa, idly, ragi poha,ragi cakes,cookies, in Goa we prepare dodol, Tizzan and the ragi recipes don’t stop here. So lately i make sure to add ragi in my diet regularly. Perhaps came up with this idea of ragi ladoo..

Gluten free, sugar free & and oil free Ragi ladoo...Super healthy for your kids and also Adults. Hungry tummy? just grab two and eat it rather grabbing chips or other junk food. You can see in pic my little one picking  and elder one munching

Its been a month i got ingredients either to prepare dry fruit ladoo or ragi ladoo ,but after enquiring with my mum, my aunties i got idea about mixing the ingredients. Wanted to use jaggery but instead of jaggery used soft dates ,raisins and peanuts for stickiness and binding. While surfing you tube also got to know how dates or raisins can be used for binding instead of jaggery or ghee . And actually  flour nicely gets incorporated with dates , raisins and peanuts .

Servings 25-30
Total preparation Time : 1 hour

Ingredients
1 cup  of Ragi flour
1 cup roasted peanuts
1 cup of soft dates
1 cup of soft raisins
6 Cardamom
1/2 Inch cinnamon

Step wise method
1. Slightly roast the ragi/finger millet flour for 3 -5 minutes on slow flame and make sure you keep stirring it.This roasting method is to cut down the raw smell of Ragi.

2. Di seed the dates and cut half.Add it to mixer jar along with raisins and peanuts. Also add cardamom pearls n cinnamon to the jar. Grind it coarsely .

  3.To Mixer jar add ragi flour and grind all ingredients together. 

4.Once you see all incorporated well,remove it in bowl.Nicely knead the mixer and make round ladoo.

6.Once ladoo done store it in steel container or a glass container.At room temperature can be store up-to 2 weeks and for more you can store in refrigerator.

7.Healthy bite size power pack ladoo's are ready for your growing kids and your hardworking family:)

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