Sweetcorn Vada

Ingredients:

Sweetcorn - 1 cup

Corn flour - 2 tbsp

Besan flour - 1 tbsp

Onion(medium) - 1

Potato(medium) - 1

Green peas - 1/4 cup

Green chillies - 5

Ginger - one inch piece

Cumin seeds - 1 tbsp

Black pepper - 1/4 tbsp

Coriander leaves - 3 tbsp

Curry leaves - 1 leaflet

Salt - as per taste

Oil - sufficient

Procedure:

1. Grind sweetcorn with green chillies in to paste and set aside.
2. Boil potato, green peas and mash them.
3. Now take a mixing bowl, add sweetcorn paste, mashed potato & green peas, finely chopped onion, ginger, curry leaves,coriander leaves, black pepper, cumin seeds, salt, corn flour, and besan flour to prepare batter with sufficient consistency.
4. Take a large kadai with oil and heat it.
5. When oil is hot, make the batter in to small balls and press them in to small vadas.
6. Drop the prepared vadas in to oil one by one and fry them until they turn to golden brown.

TIP: Do not mash green peas in to fine paste. If the batter is too loose, add little more besan flour. Fry all the vadas in medium flame only (If fried under high flame, they change the color immediately, but the mixture inside the vada stays raw).