Potato Vada / Egg Potato Vada

This is one more recipe i prepared on my hubby birthday , he is big fan of potato vada, he was insisting me to do prepare potato vada for him but because of deep fry i was avoiding his request. So on his birthday i prepared this to make him happy. His friends also had turned up in the evening some of them were non-veg lovers.My hubby recently avoiding eggs in direct form so i made these two types of fritters with the same potato mixture. His friends loved it too and it was new to them. This egg fritters is a street side food in orrisa.I used to enjoy it very much with my friends in my college days. I am sure you will enjoy it too.

Ingredients:

• 3 hard boiled eggs
• 2 cups mashed potatos(4 big potatos)
• 1 cup chopped onion
• 1 tsp garlic ginger paste
• 2 tbsp chopped cilantro
• 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
• 2 green chilis
• 1/2 tsp corainder powder
• 1/4 tsp cummin powder
• 1/4 tsp garam masala
• 1/4 tsp chilli powder
• 1/4 tsp cummin seeds
• 2 green chillis chopped
• 1 tsp oil
• oil for deep fry
• salt to taste

For Batter:

• 2 cups gram flour
• 1/4 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp chilli powder
• salt to taste

Cooking Procedure:

Heat oil in pan and add cummin seeds and when it splutter add onions,garlic ginger paste,chopped chillis,turmeric powder and fry till onion become translucent.

Add all the powders and stir for a minute.

Add the mashed potato and mix it till the potato blend with masala nicely

Fry for 2 mins, switch it off and transfer the mixture to plate and mix the chopped cilantro leaves.

Mix all the ingredients of batter with water into a semi-thick paste and keep aside.

After the potato mixture cools, Divide the potato mixture into equal sized portions, the size of a lemon and flatten it 1 inch thick

Heat oil in a deep fry pan.

Dip the balls in the batter and fry it till golden brown.

Serve hot with ketchup.

Egg potato vada recipe

Cut the eggs along the length into two portion

Take some potato mixture in your palm and shape it like a half egg and join with mixture with the half cut egg.

Press nicely and it will look like a complete egg half white half brown

Dip it in the batter and deep fry till golden brown.

Serve Hot