Tenga Vade (Rice Flour -Coconut Fritters)

    Janmashtami- celebrating the birth of lord Krishna, is one of the most popular festivals of India. This festival like most of the Indian festivals is celebrated with much fervor and zest. And the festivities are not complete without festive food.   

Tenga Vade (Rice Flour-Coconut Fritters) is my mother-in-laws recipe (most of the South Indian recipes I make ,I have learnt from her.), which we made for Janmashtami along with some sweets.

Ingredients:

3 cups Rice flour

½ cup all purpose flour (Maida )

¾ ^th  cup fresh coconut scrapped

6-7 green chillies coarsely ground(you can also use dry red chilly powder)

Salt to taste

Oil for deep frying

Method:

Mix Rice flour, Maida, coarsely ground chillies, scrapped Coconut and salt.

Heat oil in a  Kadai( Wok).

Add about 1 tbsp hot oil to the flour mixture and mix well.The mixture should resemble bread crumbs.

Add little water and mix well to make a thick batter.

Take a small lemon sized ball from this batter and flatten it on your hand (or a cotton cloth or a plastic sheet whichever is convenient) to make very thin vadas..Make a hole in the middle with your finger.

Drop genty one by one in hot oil and fry till golden brown to make crisp and crunchy vadas.

Cool and store in an airtight container.

These vadas stay for 5-6 days that is if they are not eaten by then.