Green Moong Sprouts Vada
Make these 15 minute snack with homemade or store-bought sprouts. They are so crispy, tasty and a great way to finish off leftover sprouts.
Ingredients
- 2 cups green moong sprouts
- 1 inch ginger
- 2 green chillies
- 2 tbsp besan or chickpeas flour
- 1 tbsp rice flour
- 1 tbsp corn flour or substitute with more rice flour
- ½ tsp hing
- salt to taste
- few curry leaves chopped
Optional add-ons
- ½ cup onions finely chopped or cabbage finely chopped
Instructions
- To a blender/mixie jar, add the green moong sprouts, ginger, chilli and pulse to a paste. If necessary, add 1 tbsp of water.
- Make sure you do not add a lot of water - we have to fry them as pakodas and not make pesarattu out of it!
- Remove to a bowl, add the flours, hing and salt. Just before frying, add onions if using and herbs.
- It can be made into vadais and fried or drop spoonfuls into hot oil and fry as pakodas.
- Any chutney or ketchup will go well with it.