Aval Vadai | Flattened Rice Vada | Poha Vada

Name: Aval Vadai | Flattened Rice Vada | Poha Vada
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 40 min
Ingredients: 1 Cup Aval / Poha / Flattened Rice (1 Cup - 250ml); 1 Onion (Finely Chopped); 1 Green Chili (Finely Chopped); ½ inch Ginger (Finely Chopped); 1 tsp Salt (Adjust as Needed); Few Curry leaves; ¼ Cup Coriander Leaves; 2 Cups Oil (For Deep Frying)

Posted on Feb 16th, 2017

by Sowmya Venkatachalam

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4.2 from 5 votes

Aval Vada is an instant snack which doesn't the conventional process of soaking and grinding. Also this Poha Vala is very simple as all ingredients are so handy in our pantry. Very easy to prepare yet tastes so awesome. Serve with hot tea/coffee and relish this awesome Poha Vada!

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 30 minutes

Total Time 40 minutes

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Want to grab a quick snack with hot coffee / tea in the evening? Then, this Aval Vadai is one of the crunchy and yummy evening snack! Very easy and hassle free snack to make. The conventional Medhuvadaa or masala vada needs dals to be soaked and then grinding with spices, followed by deep frying. But this is just an instant vada, we could just gather all the required ingredients in 10 minutes and make this yummy snack for a nice evening!

Tips for making Aval Vada:

We can use thin or thick variety of poha. For thin variety, 10 mins soaking itself is enough. But for thicker variety of poha, we may need soaking atleast for 20-30 mins
Instead of chopped Green chili, we can grind green chili and ginger and add it like paste. This will be helpful if we have kids at home so they don’t bite the green chili pieces
We can add chopped spinach along with mashed poha
If you feel the vada mixture is not binding together, we can add rice flour which will help to bind. Or we can use mashed potato to bind the mixture
Always fry the vada in low flame till golden brown and crispy

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Instructions with Step by Step Pictures:

Wash the flattened rice thoroughly, and add water just above the level of flattened rice and set it aside for 10 minutes

After 10 minutes, squeeze out excess water from soaked flattened rice. Mash the flattened rice nicely

Add chopped onion, green chili, ginger, salt, teared up curry leaves, coriander leaves and mix everything well

Make small balls out of the vada mixture and then flatten it to make a vada. If you are not able to make a patti, you can add a tablespoon of rice flour which help in binding all the ingredients

Heat oil in a pan. When the oil is really hot, keep the flame medium and add 4-5 patties and deep fry them till they are golden brown and crispy. take out the crispy vada and place it in tissue to drain excess oil