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Potato Vada

Ingredients:

500 gm Potatoes

Oil for deep frying

Tempering:

5 gm mustard seeds

2 gm curry leaves

5 gm turmeric powder

3 gm red chilli powder

10 gm green chillies

10 gm ginger

10 gm garlic

1 lime

10 gm coriander leaves

Salt as per taste

Batter:

200 gm gram flour

Water

5 gm red chilli powder

5 gm turmeric

3 gm crushed cumin

Salt as per taste

2 gm Baking Powder

Preparation:

Peel and wash the potatoes.

Cook the potatoes until soft in a pressure cooker for 12 minutes or normally and mash coarsely.

Chop together the garlic,  ginger, green chillies, and the coriander leaves.( if you want u can add some onions)

With gram flour,Water (sufficient to make thick batter), chilli powder, turmeric, cumin seeds powder, Salt and baking powder make a thick batter and kept aside.

Heat 2 table spoons oil and add mustard seeds, after they crackle add the curry leaves.

Mix in all the rest of the tempering ingredients to the mashed potatoes and Mix everything to get a smooth paste. 

Divide the potato mixture into equal sized balls, approximately the size of a lemon.

Heat Oil for frying to 180 ° C.

Dip each ball in the batter and deep fry until golden brown in color.

Note:  fry 4-5 balls of dough at a time. 

Serve hot with a Green Chutney or with Kissan chatakdhaar ketchup