Instant Rava Vada (Semolina Fritters)

Instant rava vada(Indian spiced semolina fritter) is a perfect recipe for those lazy days when you don’t want to spend time cooking. 

It’s great to kick start your relaxed evening conversations with tea and rava vada. Also serve it as appetizers in your party and your guests will love it.

Instant food is a boon. Not just for working women or for busy mothers but for everyone. In this fast pace life style we most times want to cook food that is easy to cook, uses simple ingredients and is fast. This instant rava vada recipe will make your life easy whenever you think of making vadas be it for unannounced guest treats, or for evening snacks and even festivals.

My hubby LOVES vada. He orders vada every single time we got out for breakfast or evening snack. I don’t enjoy deep fried/oily stuff. So this vada was cooked for the family members and the verdict I got from the vada lover –‘ This is GOOD!’.

How to make

1. Add semolina, chopped onions, chopped green chilies, chopped ginger, cumin seeds, chopped curry leaves, asafoetida, salt to taste. Mix well.

2. Add 1 tablespoon yogurt at a time and mix well. Keep adding yogurt little at a time and mix until you get a batter that has the consistency of medhu vada batter(not too runny or too thick).

3. Cover and rest the batter for 15 minutes while you heat oil in a deep bottom pan for deep frying.

4. Before frying, mix batter for 1 or 2 minutes well.

5. Wet your right hand well by dipping inside water and take a small ball of batter. Shape into round and then flatten into a disc shape. Now use your thumb to make hole in the middle and drop it in oil (you can follow banana leaf method where the vadas are shaped on banana leaf and then slide the shaped vadas into hot oil.
6. Fry on medium-low flame, turn the vadas and fry till both the sides turn crisp and golden brown.
7. Remove from oil and let it sit on kitchen towel for excess oil to be absorbed. Repeat the process for rest of the batter.
8. Crunchy hot and delicious vadas are ready to be served. The vadas are best when paired with Chutney and Sambar. DELICIOUS!

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Instant Rava Vada

Jyothi Rajesh

Instant rava vada(Indian spiced semolina fritter) is a perfect recipe for those lazy days where you dont want to spend time cooking. It’s great to kick start your relaxed evening conversations with tea. Serve it as appetizers in your party and your guests will love it.

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Prep Time 20 minutes mins

Cook Time 10 minutes mins

Total Time 30 minutes mins

Course Appetizer

Cuisine Indian

Servings 5 people

Calories 150

Ingredients

  

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• ▢ 1 cup Chirotti rava(semolina)
• ▢ ½ cup curd
• ▢ 4 tablespoon onions, finely chopped
• ▢ 2 green chilies, fine chopped
• ▢ ½ teaspoon cumin seeds
• ▢ ½ teaspoon ginger, fine chopped
• ▢ ¼ teaspoon asafoetida
• ▢ 1 pinch baking soda
• ▢ 1 sprig curry leaves
• ▢ salt to taste
• ▢ oil for deep frying

Instructions

 

• Into a bowl add semolina, chopped onions, chopped green chilies, chopped ginger, cumin seeds, chopped curry leaves, asafoetida, salt to taste. Mix well.
• Add 1 tablespoon yogurt at a time and mix well. Keep adding yogurt little at a time and mix until you get a batter that has the consistency of medhu vada batter(not too runny or too thick)
• Cover and rest the batter for 15 minutes while you heat oil in a deep bottom pan for deep frying.
• Before frying, mix batter for 1 or 2 minutes well.
• Wet your right hand well by dipping inside water and take a small ball of batter. Shape into round and then flatten into a disc shape. Now use your thumb to make hole in the middle and drop it in oil (you can follow banana leaf method where the vadas are shaped on banana leaf and then slide the shaped vadas into hot oil)
• Be very careful while doing this and stand as far as possible from hot oil. DEFINITELY no kids around you while you are deep frying the vadas.
• Fry on medium-low flame, turn the vadas and fry till both the sides turn crisp and golden brown.
• Remove from oil and let it sit on kitchen towel for excess oil to be absorbed. Repeat the process for rest of the batter.
• Crunchy hot and delicious vadas are ready to be served. The vadas are best when paired with Chutney and Sambar. DELICIOUS!

Notes

1. The batter should be rested well. And after resting make sure to mix batter well to make smooth and fluffy batter which will result in fluffy vadas.

2. Chirotti rava is a very fine rava that is best for instant vadas and other Indian sweets. You won’t get good vada texture with other normal rava, so use chirotti rava only to make these vadas.

Nutrition

Calories: 150kcalCarbohydrates: 27gProtein: 6gFat: 1gSaturated Fat: 0gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 116mgPotassium: 73mgFiber: 2gSugar: 1gVitamin A: 15IUVitamin C: 10.7mgCalcium: 37mgIron: 1.9mg

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