Less Oil Handvo Flour Palak Vada
Less oil handvo flour palak vada is made using spinach and handvo flour. It is made with less oil in a paniyaram /appe pan. Handvo flour is the mixed flour made with roasting rice, tuvar dal (pigeon peas), chana dal (gram), urad dal (split black gram). The mix of flour and the spices added gives a very unique and delicious taste to the vada. Enjoy them hot or cold snack with a cup of tea or coffee. Good handy snack while traveling.
Servings 44 vada
Calories 22kcal
Ingredients
- 2.5 cup Handvo Flour
- 1/2 cup yogurt curd(if possible use sour curd)
- 1.5 cup water
- 1 tsp red chili powder If you want you can add green chili paste for extra spiciness
- 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
- 1/4 tsp asafoetida
- 7-8 curry leaves
- 1 tbsp ginger green chili paste
- 1 tsp cumin seeds
- 200 g spinach washed and chopped finely
- 1/2 tsp eno plain, (fruit salt)
- 4 tsp oil
- oil for roasting
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl, add handvo flour, yogurt, red chili powder, turmeric powder, asafoetida, chopped curry leaves, ginger-green chili paste, salt and oil. Add 1 cup water.
- Mix them well.
- Add cumin seeds. Mix well. You can add cumin seed in the first step. I forgot to add it and so added later.
- Add the chopped spinach and remaining water. Mix well. The batter should not be runny.It should be thick like a cake batter. At this stage you can cover the batter and keep for 5-6 hours for fermentation and then make vadas. I kept it aside for 30 minutes.
- Since I did not keep batter for fermentation, I added eno (fruit salt) before making vadas. Take half batter in a bowl and add 1/4 tsp of eno. Mix it lightly . The batter is ready to use. Once this batter is finished, make the other batter with by adding eno. The effect of eno if added to the entire batter would become less with time and then we end up getting dense vadas.
- Heat and brush the paniyaram pan with the oil. (you can deep fry the vadas in oil at this stage).
- Pour batter in the indents of the pan.
- Cover and cook on medium heat for 6-7 minutes.
- Remove the lid. The bottom side will be cooked and the upper side of the vada will be dried.
- Now flip the vadas on another side to cook with a toothpick or wooden skewer. If you crispy vada add little oil to cook on another side.
- The hot less oil handvo flour spinach vada are ready to serve. Serve them hot with ketchup or chutney.
Nutrition
Calories: 22kcal | Carbohydrates: 3g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 0.1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.2g | Cholesterol: 0.2mg | Sodium: 6mg | Potassium: 63mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 0.2g | Vitamin A: 450IU | Vitamin C: 1.7mg | Calcium: 10mg | Iron: 0.4mg