Potato Vada

Ingredients

Potato – ½ kg

Onion - 2

Black gram dal(skinless) – 1 tsp

Mustard seeds – 1 tsp

Green chilli – 3

Ginger garlic paste – 1 ½ tsp

Curry leaves – 10 to 12

Coriander leaves – ½ cup

Chick pea flour – 2 cups

Turmeric powder – 1 tsp

Red chilli powder – 1 tsp

Salt as per taste. Oil for deep frying

Method

Boil potatoes and mash it well. Slice onion, chop green chillies. Take a pan, add 1 tbl.spoon of oil and add to it onion, green chillies, mustard seed, black urad dal, curry leaves and fry for few minutes, then add to it ginger garlic paste, stir for few minutes and tehn add mashed potato, turmeric powder and salt. Mix well and remove from fire. Add chopped coriander leaves to it.

For the batter

Mix chick pea or besan flour with salt, red chilli powder and salt with little water.  The batter should be of thick consistency and there should be no lumps.

Heat oil in a deep frying pan. Make round balls of potato and dip it in the batter and deep fry. Take pav or French bread, cut it into half, apply garlic chutney as given and place two potato vada and serve.