Alu Vadi

Alu Vadi in Marathi

Time:  

30 Minutes,

Serves for 4.

 Ingredients:

1) 4-6 Colocasia Leaves

2) 1 Cup Besan (Chickpea flour) 

3) 1 tsp rice flour 

4) Salt as per taste 

5) 4-5 green Chillies

6) 1 tsp Ginger Garlic past

7) 2tsp Cumin Seeds

8) 1 tsp Sesame seeds

9) ¼ cup Tamarind Pulp

10) 2 tsp jaggery

11) Oil

12) Salt as per taste 

13) Grated Coconut ½ cup

 
Method:

In a mixing bowl add chickpea flour, ginger garlic,green chiliies and coriander leaves paste, turmeric powder, sesame seeds, cumin seeds, salt, tamarind pulp, jiggery and mix nicely.

Add water and make a thick sticky paste, it should be in the middle and keep aside.

Wash, rinse and dry the leaves with a napkin.

Cut the excessive stems.

Take a largest leaf place it on flat surface and dark green side down.

Apply the besan paste on it put the second leaf with the opposite direction.

Apply the besan paste on second leaf.

Cover the leaf with the gram flour paste, now palce a third leaf and apply the paste on this leaf too.

Now fold the broad side of  leaf and put some more paste on it and start making roll.

Make a tide roll.

Steam cooks these rolls for 10-15 minutes and let them cool down completely.

Make slices and deep fry or shallow fry them.

Serve hot and garnish with grated coconut.