Upwas Dahi Vada – Marathi Recipe

Instructions

• Take boiled potatoes and mash them well.
• Add varai flour. You can use shingada or rajgira flour instead of varai flour.
• Add salt, ginger green chili paste, cumin seeds and finely chopped coriander leaves.
• Mix everything well together.
• Take small balls from the dough and make round vade of it.
• When all vade are rolled out, you can deep fry them.
• Or roll them into shape of cutlet and shallow fry.
• Heat up appe patra on medium heat. Add a little oil in each mould.
• When appe patra is enough hot, put vade in each mould.
• Roast until vade turn golden from all sides. Keep in rolling vade after every 3-4 minutes so that they get evenly fried from all sides.
• Take plain curd into a bowl. Add powdered sugar and pinch of salt.
• Beat the curd really good until it turns creamy. No lumps of curd should be left into it.
• If you think the curd is thick, you can add water or milk to make it thinner.
• To arrange dahi vada, take a bowl. Put vade into it and add curd.
• Vade should be covered with curd.
• Add tamarind-jaggery pulp. For that, take 4 tsp tamarind and 5-6 tsp jaggery.
• Add water and boil nicely.
• When jaggery dissolves completely, mash the tamarind well and strain the pulp.
• Add a little red chili powder and rock salt to pulp.
• Add green chutney. Recipe for this is already uploaded on website.
• Add roasted cumin powder, red chili powder and finely chopped coriander.
• Upasache dahi vade are already.