Vada Usal

Ingredients

• Potato - 8 Kg
• Green peas - 3 Kg
• Besan - 2 Kg
• Rice flour - 500 gms
• Jeera - 100 gms
• Saabut dhaniya - 150 gms
• Black pepper - 50 gms
• Dalchini - few
• Lavang - few
• Bedgi Mirchi - 100 gms
• Khus Khus - 150 gms
• Safed Til - 150 gms
• Garlic - 100 gms
• Ginger - 400 gms
• Green chillies - 100 gms
• Copra - 6 medium half vati
• Dhaniya Powder - 100 gms
• Rai - 200 gms
• Hing - 100 gms
• Onion - 4 Kg
• Tomato - 3 Kg
• Kadipatta - little
• Kothmbir - 2 Big

Preparation

Batata Vada

• Boil potatoes and remove skin
• Grind garlic, ginger, chillies, kadipatta, kothmbir with little water into paste
• Heat oil in a vessel, add rai and wait till it splutters
• Add jeera, kadipatta and saute
• Add haldi and mix
• Add above paste and mix
• Add potatoes and mix
• For vada batter, add water to besan slowly and keep mixing such that there are no lumps.
• Add little rice flour and mix
• Add salt and mix, the batter texture must be slightly liquidy
• Make balls of above potato bhaji and dip into besan and fry on medium flame

Usal

• Heat oil in a vessel, add jeera and saute
• Add dhaniya dana, cloves, black pepper, green chillies, kadipatta, garlic, ginger, white til and saute
• Wait till it cools, then grind above with grated coconut and little water
• Heat oil, add rai and wait till it splutters
• Add onions and saute
• Add haldi and mix
• Add kanda lasoon masala and saute
• Add above paste and mix
• Add water, salt, chilli powder and wait till boil
• Add soaked green peas and cook
• Add lime, little aamchur powder, kothmbir and mix
• While serving sprinkle raw onions, kothmbir and lime juice mixture