Subscribe to RSSKonkani Vadas (Biscuit ambado)
Every South Indian cuisine has its own recipe for Vadas. Here is Andhra Version of it. As Preeti says here, this is a must in any wedding meal (Vardike/lagna javan) for Konkanis.
‘Biscuit ambado‘ is prepared as an evening snack at my home. Aayi makes these vadas with ginger chutney. Her vadas are very soft and crispy and one of the best vadas I have ever had. She always makes them in the shape of vadas (with a hole in between - called as thoothu vadas) for my brother, but usually the traditional ‘biscuit ambade‘ has no shape, may be because giving the nice shape is extra work. I don’t bother about the shape as far as I am getting the proper taste :D.
Ingredients:
1 cup urad dal
2 tbl spns fresh/frozen coconut + few pieces of fresh coconut
4-5 curry leaves
1 tea spn ginger (cut into tiny pieces or grated)
2-3 green chilies(cut into tiny pieces)
Oil
Salt
A handful of urad dal with skin makes vadas become very crispy.
Method:
Soak urad dal for around 2 hours. Grind it into a paste (with minimum or no water), the paste need not become very soft.
Add coconut, curry leaves, ginger, green chillies and salt. Mix well.
Heat oil. Drop small balls of the batter in hot oil and fry on a medium flame.
Serve with ginger chutney.
Serves : 2
Preparation time : 15mins
Hi shilpa,
July 19th, 2006 at 11:01 amBiacuit Roti and vada looks yummy.
Thanks for sharing
Vineela
Hi Shilpa, the roti and the vadas look so good..I’m gonna try them soon after i get over this tirdness of mine..thanks for sharing.
July 19th, 2006 at 11:52 amHi Shilpa!!
Nice recipe!!Some people add baking soda to make vadas soft.Do you know anything about it?
July 19th, 2006 at 3:08 pmBiscuit ambado is such a stylish name, i liked it. Thank you for the recipe, i am planning to try it since you mentioned about the extra crispiness coming from whole black gram. Thank you Shilpa.
July 19th, 2006 at 3:36 pmVery interesting konkani names..biscuit ambado…biscuit roti….sounds yummy too !
July 19th, 2006 at 6:28 pmOh cool..thanks for the recipe. My would be ma-il law makes them often…so I had better learn the method fast!!
regards
July 20th, 2006 at 2:57 amVarsha
Thanks all. I too wonder how the traditional dishes are called ‘Biscuit …’. May be because they are crispy…thats just a guess :).
July 20th, 2006 at 5:24 amHi Shilpa
this is just like we do vadas in Tamil nadu. Really easy one…
July 20th, 2006 at 6:10 pmVery interesting! I thought all biscuits were sweet. Now this is different.
July 20th, 2006 at 7:24 pmlooks yummy !! shall try it soon.
July 20th, 2006 at 8:07 pmI love this very much. We use coconut peices, cut very small (katli). Now that you have reminded must try this on the coming weekend. Thanks for sharing
July 21st, 2006 at 9:27 amHi, Thanks for the lovely traditional recipe. I relished it.
August 5th, 2006 at 7:17 amhi , i tried biscuit ambado and chutney, it was really tasty and mind blowing.
February 24th, 2007 at 10:21 amHi
After the batter is ready put a wooden spoon in it & churn for about two minutes. It becomes light & fluffy & wadas turn out very tasty.
Laxmi
April 23rd, 2007 at 9:05 amHi
When the dough is ready , churn it with a wooden spoon for 2 minutes & the results are better.
April 23rd, 2007 at 9:17 amhi shilpa,
May 2nd, 2007 at 1:37 pmi would like to know is this the recipe of the vada that is served in hotels with idli?
Sowmya, yes it is same. Only thing is in restaurants, they give a round shape and make a whole in the center. Most of the times they add a pinch of soda to it.
May 2nd, 2007 at 1:47 pmthanks a million shilpa….!!! yesterday my hubby asked me do i know to prepare it…and i said no but this is easy and it will be a nice surprise…(got married just 2 months back…;))
May 2nd, 2007 at 2:04 pmHey Shilpa…i tried it out…and it was great…ofcourse next time i will try to give round shape…but shape didnt matter much as it was soo tasty…i was soooo happy to see my husband eat it joy… thank you…
May 4th, 2007 at 11:06 pmMade this today… My husband loved the vadas.. Thanks so much !!
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November 12th, 2007 at 10:15 amHi Varadakka
Welcome to Shilpa’s blog. Looking forward to your authentic recipe.
Gayathri
May 29th, 2008 at 7:04 pmhi shilpa,
July 15th, 2008 at 12:40 amyour konkani vada looks yummy. Thank you for sharing.
Photograph is really superb.
hey shilpa,
July 22nd, 2008 at 3:11 amthanks a lot for shairing the recipes ……….. they are realllllly yummmmmmmmmmy ……………. pls also help in microwave cooking as i have got a new one but i am scarred to use as the first time i used it i burned my bday cake:-(it was very sad .Help me
thank you
pinky