Navratri special recipe: Saboodana Vadaa

Saboodana vadaas are tasty and very easy to make.

Ingredients:

1) Potato - 1, boiled, peeled and mashed.
2) Green Chillies - 8-10 (crushed).
3) Sago - 1 Cup.
4) Peanuts - 1/2 cup, roasted and crushed crudely.
5) Rock salt (for taste)
6) Oil (to deep fry)

Instructions:

1) Wash Sago properly and drain the surplus water. Soak it for about 3 hours.
2) Next, add all the ingredients to Sago except oil. Blend it all into a paste.
3) In the deep frying pan, heat the oil.
4) Moist your hands and make small ball shaped moulds out of the paste you have made. Slip these into the heated oil on medium flame.
5) Keep frying the balls till they turn crisp and light brown. Drain them well using a sieve ladle. Serve with badaam chutney.

Navratri Special Recipe: Peanut Curd Chutney

Peanut Curd Chutney works as an excellent dip with vadas and pakodas.

Ingredients

1 tbsp Peanuts (crushed)
1 cup Fresh Curd
1 Stalk Curry Leaves
1/2 tsp Powdered Sugar
1 Green Chilli (finely chopped)
1 tbsp Coriander Leaves (finely chopped)
1 tsp Oil
Salt to taste
Instructions

Beat the yogurt to make it smooth.
Add chillis, peanut, coriander, sugar and salt.
Heat oil in a pan and saute curry leaves.
Add them to curds when they begin to splutter. Mix well.
Refrigerate the mixture as per requirement.
Serve the chutney with sabodana wadas and pakodas.