Baked Sabudana Vada

When I was growing up I was the only one at my home to enjoy the fried delicacies that my mom used to make. My dad used to hate most of the fried stuff, he was more into simple food. My sister is more of a sweet lover. As I grew and became more aware about health I got into eating healthy (also because I started putting on and was no longer the skinny girl). 

The other day, my husband and I were craving for something sort of fried i.e. savory and on the salty side. It really takes efforts to stay on the healthy side. So to create a perfect balance between health and tastebuds, I decided to make baked sabudana vadas. I love fried sabudana vadas and this recipe for baked one comes quite close. Plus they can be enjoyed guilt free. The recipe for it goes as follows:

Ingredients:

• 1 cup sabudana (tapioca pearls)
• 2 large potatoes
• 1/2 cup peanuts
• 3-4 green chillies chopped
• 2 tsp ginger chopped fine
• 1 tbsp lime juice
• few sprigs cilantro chopped
• 2 tsp salt (or as per taste)
• 2 tbsp olive oil

Directions:

• Wash and soak sabudana for 6 hours at least. The sabudana pearls will become large and translucent. Drain the water off using a colander.
• Pressure cook potatoes till they are cooked, it would take around 3-4 whistles. When the potatoes are done, let it cool. Then remove the peel and mash it.
• Roast peanuts in a pan on slow flame for around 10 minutes. Then let it cool and course grind it in a blender.
• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
• In a large bowl mix together sabudana, mashed potatoes, ground peanuts, green chillies, ginger, cilantro, lime juice, salt and olive oil.
• Place aluminium foil on a baking sheet and spray it with cooking oil
• Make small lemon sized balls and flatten it using your palms. Place the patties on the prepared baking sheet. Spray the top with cooking oil.
• Bake for 15-20 minutes in the oven. Put the oven in broil mode and bake for another 2-5 minutes, let the top get a nice golden color. Be careful when you put the oven in broil mode because it gets really hot and take care that your patties don't get burnt. Just keep a watch on it.*
• Remove from oven, let it stand for a minute and enjoy your sabudana vadas

Baked sabudana vadas

* I used to flip my patties after 20 minutes in the oven but I like this broil method. It was suggested by Anudivya on her blog mixtomatch and it works great.

Baked Edamame Fritters

Baked edamame fritters

While I am posting my recipe for Baked Sabudana vada let me share with you Anudivya's link for baked edamame fritters. I tried it out and it was amazing, comes very close to fried dal vadas. It is a very healthy recipe made nutritious with the addition of edamame. I followed the recipe to the tee without making any changes and I think it doesn't need any. Please click on:

http://mixtomatch.blogspot.com/2010/08/baked-edamame-fritters-secret-to.html

Enjoy these snacks guiltfree!!!