Today’s recipe is a snack made from soya beans – a crunchy soya bean vadai.

Soya bean Vadai

Time taken: 15 – 20 mins (using pre-cooked soya beans)

Makes 6 or 7

Ingredients:

• Soya beans – ½ cup, boiled
• All-purpose flour – ½ cup
• Onion – ½, chopped
• Crushed chillies – 2 tsp
• Fennel seeds – 1 tsp
• Curry leaves – 1 sprig, chopped
• Turmeric powder – ½ tsp
• Salt, to taste
• Low fat oil, for deep-frying

Method:

1. Mix all the ingredients in a mixing bowl to prepare the ‘vadai’ dough. Divide the dough into small balls, around 6 or 7. Flatten each slightly.
2. Heat the oil in a pan. When the oil is ready for frying, drop the ‘vadai’ in batches into the heated oil and deep fry them until they are golden brown on both sides.
3. Serve warm with some Sri Lankan tea.

Recipe source: Raji Thillainathan.