MADDUR VADE

A uniqe snack from Karnataka,Maddur a place which is in Mandya district of Karnataka state.Maddur lies in between the cities of Bangalore and Mysore.If you go by train or bus from Bangalore to mysore can get this vade on stops in small tea shopes.when I had this vade first time in maddur it self in a small hotel than I gon in side the kitchen of that hotel and got the recipe from that cook ( this is my habit if i like the food where ever I eat i try to take the recipe from the same cook or chef if possible),and from that time this crunchy snack became a fav. in my home.

INGREDIENTS:----

1/2 cup --- semolina (upma rava)

1/2 cup -- rice flour

1/2 cup maida/all purpose flour

5 ----green chillies chopped

2----- onions chopped

2 tab sp----coriander leaves chopped

a few curry leaves chopped

3 tab sp --- melted ghee

1 tea sp ---salt

oil for deep frying

METHOD:----

Mix all above ingredients with melted ghee and little water to make a stiff dough.

Take a plantain leaf piece or any thing that you can flatten vade on it .

Make small balls of the dough and flaten on the leaf like masala vade(if you want to make them thin you can do that will stay for some time but if you make them like masalavade they won't stay for long).

Heat oil in a deep frying pan and fry the vade 5-6 at a time till golden colour

Remove and serve hot or cool with coconut chutney.