Sabudana Vada (sago patties)
Source of Recipe
Brenda-Lee Olson
Recipe Introduction
From Petrina Verma Sarkar
List of Ingredients
* 4 large potatoes boiled, peeled and mashed
* 1/2 cup sabudana (sago aka large pearl tapioca)
* Water
* 1 large onion chopped very fine
* 2 green chillies chopped very fine
* 2" piece of ginger grated
* 1/4 cup peanuts roasted and crushed coarsely
* 1 tsp raw mango powder
* 1 tsp cumin seeds
* Salt to taste
* Vegetable/canola/ sunflower cooking oil for shallow frying
Recipe
* Soak the sabudana (sago) in warm water overnight. It will puff up and become translucent.
* Mix the sabudana with all the other ingredients and form a paste. Add salt to taste.
* Make the paste into equal-sized balls and flatten slightly to form patties.
* Heat oil in a wide, flat pan and shallow fry the patties till golden.
* Drain on paper towels and serve with tamarind chutney,
mint-coriander chutney and piping-hot Masala Chai.
This snack from Maharashtra in western India is great for cold, rainy days as an accompaniment to hot Masala Chai (spiced tea)!
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