Kobichya Vadya – Marathi Recipe

Instructions

• Take cabbage into a bowl.
• Add spring onion, jawar flour, besan, rice flour, turmeric powder, cumin seeds, chat masala, green chilli-garlic paste, salt, red chili powder and mix everything well together.
• You can use besan and rice flour or bhajani or chakali bhajani too for making these vadya.
• Dough is ready. No need to add water as grated cabbage releases lot of moisture and that is sufficient for making dough.
• Take tray lined up with wax paper.
• Transfer the mixture into the tray and spread evenly.
• You can make rolls of the dough like kothimbir vadi.
• Heat up water in a kadhai or big pot.
• Place a stand or empty tin at the base and tray of vadi on it.
• Steam the vadi on medium heat for about 15-20 minutes.
• Insert a tooth pick or knife at the center of the steamed vadi.
• If it comes out clean, it means that vadi is well steamed.
• When the mixture cools down a little, loosen the edges with knife and flip the tray over into a plate.
• Remove the wax paper and cut it into pieces in any shape and size you want.
• You can spread sesame seeds before steaming the vadi.
• Just take care while frying so that the sesame seeds won’t pop out.
• Heat up oil for frying.
• Drop vadya into hot oil and fry well from both sides.
• You can shallow fry vadya too.
• When vadya get nice golden color from both sides take them out into a dish.
• Kobichay vadya are all ready.