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Thursday, March 31, 2011

Prawn Vadai/ Era Vadai( Prawn Fritters).


Ingredients
Prawns/Eral-500gms
Bengal Gram/ Kadalai Paruppu/ Split chick peas-3/4cup
Onion medium finely sliced-1
Ginger and Garlic paste-1tsp
Red chilly powder-1tsp
Turmeric powder-1tsp
Baking soda-1/4tsp
Curry leaves-few( roughly chopped)
Salt to taste
Oil required

Grind the following ingredients to smooth paste( Ground masala paste)
Ginger-1/2inch
Garlic-5 cloves
Whole dry red chilles-6
Sombu/ Fennel seeds-1 1/2tbsp

Method
Wash and soak the bengal gram for 1 hour and grind it coarsely. 
In a small sauce pan add prawns, 1 tsp ginger and garlic paste, 1 tsp red chilly powder, 1/4 tsp turmeric powder, 1/4 tsp salt and few tbsps water. Cook the prawns for 3 mins, remove from heat and set aside to cool. When prawns reach room temperature chop the prawns coarsely. 
In a medium bowl add coarsely ground bengal gram, finely sliced onions, chopped curry leaves, coarsely chopped prawns, ground masala paste, turmeric powder, baking soda, required salt and 2tsp of oil. 
Mix well so the bengal gram, prawn and onion mixture is well blended. 
Heat enough oil in a pan to deep fry. When the oil is hot, divide the prawn vada mixture into equal sized balls.
Flatten each ball between the palm and slide it into the hot oil, you can add maximum of five vadas at a time, depending on the size of the pan. Cook the vadai on medium heat until golden brown in color( Prawn vadai has to be crisp and crunchy outside and soft and well cooked inside). Once the vadas are done drain from the oil and transfer to paper towel. Serve hot.

8 comments:

Valar Siva said...

Looks delicious!! yumm..

Valar
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San said...

Cute vadas esp with prawns i bet it would have been awesome mye.Never tried it though .Inviting presentation .

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GEETHA ACHAL said...

Love it...

Abhilash Pillai said...

I never thought vadai could be made out of prawns. Great job.

Indian Khana said...

Yum what a wonderful idea ....looks so gud

Priya Suresh said...

Mouthwatering here, crispy vada looks awesome..

Prema said...

Delicious vadai,luks tempting...

R said...

they look so nice and crispy!