Vada Usal + Sugarcane juice

Ingredients

• White Vatana - 6 Kg
• Batata - 6 Kg ( Need 8 Kg )
• Besan - 2 Kg
• Rice flour - 500 gms
• Onions - 6 Kg
• Ginger - 300 gms
• Garlic - 300 gms
• Jeera - 250 gms
• Dhaniya - 200 gms
• Black pepper - 100 gms
• Cloves - few
• Rai - 200 gms
• White til - 100 gms
• Green peas - 2 Kg
• Coconut - 6
• Kanda Lasoon Masala - 100 gms
• Lemon - Big 8
• Green chillies - 300 gms
• Kothmbir - 3 Big
• Kadipatta
   

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 onions and saute
• Add haldi and mix
• Add above paste and mix
• Add green peas and wait till cooked
• 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 vatana and cook ( will take long time )
• After vatana are cooked, add lime, little aamchur powder, kothmbir and mix
• While serving sprinkle raw onions, kothmbir and lime juice mixture