Sabudana (Tapioca Pearls) Vada (Fritters) is a mildly spiced crispy snack prepared with sabudana (Tapioca Pearls), potatoes, crushed peanuts, and spices.
Crispy and crunchy on the outside and soft in the middle, these are perfect snack or light meal during fasting. This recipe is gluten-free and vegan and makes an excellent grain-free diet on fasting days, such as Mahashivratri, Navratri and Janmashtmi or a delicious healthy snack for weekends.
I use sabudana quite often while cooking due to its health benefits. It is rich in energy, gluten-free and also helps to prevent digestion issues, relieves gas, bloating and constipation. It contains a good amount of dietary fibre that also helps to rebalance the healthy gut bacteria. Sabudana is very low in cholesterol so you can have a guilt-free bowl of this dish.
These vadas are very lightly flavoured. Since, I make these for my fasting day I have only used salt and black pepper powder along with green chillies and coriander. I would recommend buying the medium or small sized sabudana for this recipe. Also, do not skip the peanuts as it adds a delicious nutty flavour to the vadas. Traditionally, the sabudana vadas are deep fried. I prefer making them in the appe pan since they can be prepared with less oil and no compromise on taste. Appe is made on a special pan that comes with multiple small spaces. The pan is similar to the æbleskiver (aebleskiver or ebleskiver) pan used in Danish cooking.
Other recipes you might like to try are Masala Sabudana, Sugar Free Makhane Ki Kheer, Roasted Nut Chaat, Sabudana Vada, Hariyali Sabudana Khichdi and Sukha Kala Chana.
