Coconut Vada | Thengai Vadai 

A superb crispy crunchy vada made with coconut and parboiled rice.Very unique and traditional recipe but sadly a long lost dish .Do try it you will definitely love check out how to make this delicious coconut vada recipe below.

Ingredients

Grated coconut- 1 full coconut.
Parboiled Rice-250gms
Besan flour-50gms
Red chillies-8 nos
Asafetida a pinch
Oil for frying

Method

👉Wash and soak the parboiled rice for 1/2 hour and drain the water, now in a mixie first grind the rice coarsely then add coconut,red chillies, asafetida,salt and grind to paste DO NOT ADD WATER.

Ground mixture

👉Now to this paste add besan flour, curry leaves and coriander leaves,mix everything well. Check for salt.

Add besan flour

👉Heat oil for deep frying in a kedai.
👉Make small vadas(patties)out of the mixture and deep fry them until golden brown colour is reached and till the oil stops bubbling.

👉Serve with sauce or pudina chutney.Enjoy.

Preparation time-20 mins
Serves -6
Yeild-around 40 vadas

Note
✍️First grind the parboiled rice and then add the coconut .The paste should be slightly coarse then only the vada will be crunchy.
✍️Do not add water for grinding( just sprinkle if you want)
✍️You can add cumin seeds to the mixture.