These are very tasty deep fried fritters made with raw potatoes and chickpea lentils. Making of this fritters takes very less time, so you can try it whenever some unexpected guests visit your home.

This fritters can be served as Evening snack with coffee or tea

Step 1: Ingredients

One Potato
One Onion
3/4 cup of Chickpea lentils
One teaspoon of Black peppercorns
One teaspoon of Cumin seeds
One Greene chilli (add to your own taste)
An inch long piece of Ginger
Few Garlic cloves
Bunch of Curry leaves
Bunch of Coriander leaves
Half a teaspoon of Asafoetida powder
Salt to taste
Oil for deep-frying

Step 2: Prepare Ingredients 1

Soak Chickpea lentils in water for about 15 minutes. in the get ready the other ingredients
Peel potato and cut into pieces
Chop Onion into pieces
Finely chop coriander and curry leaves

Step 3: Prepare Ingredients 2

Remove Ginger skin and chop into pieces
Shuck Garlic and cut to pieces
Now add ginger, garlic, green chilli, Black peppercorns, salt and Cumin seeds to a mixer grinder
Grind to a rough paste and keep aside

Step 4: Grind Potato and Chickpea Lentils

After soaking the chickpea lentils for about 15 minutes, drain out water
Add the chickpea lentils and raw potato pieces to a mixer grinder and make a fine paste

Step 5: Make Batter

Remove the chickpea - potato mix from the mixer grinder and keep in a wide mouthed pan
Add the spice paste prepared with ginger, garlic, Black peppercorn and cumin seeds to the mix in the pan
Add chopped onions, curry leaves and coriander leaves
Add the Asafoetida powder and mix well

Now our batter for making Vadai is ready

Step 6: Heat Oil and Check

Heat required amount of oil for deep-frying in a pan over medium heat
Take lemon sized batter in your hand and shape into flat round. You can apply little amount of oil to your hand for this
Make a hole in the center of the shape. this will help in even cooking of the Vadai
Once oil is heated, add one piece to the pan and fry to a golden brown
Remove from oil, break the piece and check. Here we have used raw potatoes. So, by checking we can find out how long it will take for inside of the fritters to be fully cooked

Step 7: Deep-fry Vadai and Serve

Now deep fry the remaining batter by shaping them into flat round with a hole in the center
You can add 2 to 3 pieces in the pan if there is space
Flip over the Vadai in the oil so that other side is also fried properly
Once the Vadai pieces are fried to a dark brown color, remove and drain out excess oil

Serve hot as an evening snack with Tomato chutney or Coconut chutney