Kali Chaudas Jowar Vada Diwali Food Preparation

By Bhavna's Kitchen · 45 min

Ingredients

Instructions

1. If you have no ready fenugreek powder, dry-roast whole fenugreek seeds, stirring often, until they just begin to change colour and smell aromatic. Let them cool. Grind them with ½ cup of dry urad dal into a coarse powder and set aside.
2. Melt the jaggery in a little warm water and set aside.
3. In a big wide bowl, mix the regular wheat flour, coarse wheat flour, jowar flour and the fenugreek/urad powder.
4. Add the red chilli powder, dhana jiru, garam masala, salt, green chilli and ginger paste, asafoetida, turmeric and baking soda. Mix well.
5. Add the yogurt, oil and jaggery water to the flour and mix well.
6. Add warm water a little at a time, mixing into a thick batter (usually about 2 cups; more or less depending on the flours). It should be thicker than cake batter. Mix with your hands.
7. Cover tightly and leave somewhere warm to ferment for 8–12 hours. In summer, place it in the sun; in winter, put it in an oven with only the light on. Do not turn the oven on.
8. Soak ¼ cup of urad dal in warm water for about 30 minutes. Grind it with little or no water to a thick paste.
9. Add the urad paste to the fermented batter and mix well. Taste and adjust salt and spice; add water if the batter has become too thick. It should still be thicker than cake batter.
10. Heat oil for deep frying (peanut oil preferred) over medium heat, or just above.
11. Carefully drop in small balls of batter, smaller than golf balls. Turn them several times until all sides are golden brown. Lift onto paper towel.
12. Once cool enough to handle, break one in half. The vada is done when the inside is cooked, the batter does not stick to your finger, and it has a net-like texture. If it is undercooked, mix in 1 tbsp of hot oil at a time and test again.
13. Fry the rest the same way. Store in a brown paper bag to absorb extra oil.

Summarized from Bhavna's Kitchen's video. Watch it for the details.

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