Hi Indus ladies, Summer is nearing and I want to post some of Vathal, Vadam varities in this thread. I think you all will enjoy this thread. Generally use new rice for vathal and vadam. This will give you good result.
Rice Vathal/Kuzhul vathal 1 kg Rice Flour 200 gm Jevarasi 15 Green Chilies 2 -3 Lemon Asafetida Powder Salt to taste Method: Keep water in a big vessel (Preferable a 10 lts. Cooker bottom.) Bring it to a boil. Add Jevarasi in that mix well. Let it cook. Grind Green chilies and add with the boiling water. Add salt and asafetida powder. Mix well and make the stove simmer. Now add the rice flour slowly in that. Or you can keep less water in the cooker, And you can add normal water in the rice flour, and make it like a batter. Now add the batter in the hot water and mix well with out lumps. .When the rice flour cooks well, remove it from the fire and keep aside. Add lemon juice in that and mix well. After it comes to room temp. make vathal, on the plastic sheets as per your wish. After sun dry keep them in air tight tins, and fry when ever you need them through out the year. Note: (1) The Vathal mavu will take much time to become cool. If you put vathal with hot mavu, the vathal will become red while you fry them. So, prepare Vathal mavu in the night and next day early morning before sun comes you make vathal. This will help you to work quickly in the morning by avoiding sun’s heat on our head, but the vathal will get full day sun’s heat and will be almost ready by the same day evening.
Javarece Vathal/Sabudhana Vathal 1 kg Javarece (Sabudhana) 150 -200 gm Green Chilly Asafetida powder Salt to taste Method: Soak Javarece/Sabudhana whole night. Morning, take water in a big vessel. Heat it and add green chilly paste. Add asafetida powder and salt Bring it to a boil, add soaked Javarece/Sabudhana in that and mix well. Allow sabudhana to cook well. Let it be like DOSA DOUGH consistency. Remove it from the fire. Let it cool. In the plastic sheet, pour the vathal mavu, with a small spoon like a small ‘moon’ After <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comffice:smarttags" /><st1:time Minute="0" Hour="12">noon</st1:time> or the next day turn them and dry them again. Store the dries Sabudhana vathal in air tight tin. If you prepare correctly, the fried vathal become 3 – 4 times bigger than the dired one. Note: For this vathal also you can prepare the Vathal Mavu in the night and the nextday prepare vathal.
Onion vathal 1 cup Kuzhu vathal mavu 100 -15- gms onion 2 – 3 sp red chilly powder/green chilly Salt Method: Chop finely onions. Or grind them with out adding water Add salt and red chilly powder/green chilly Mix with the kuzhu vathal mavu and make small small balls. Keep them in the plastic sheet. Sun dry them. Fry and taste.
Ash gourd vathal 1 cup Kuzhu vathal mavu 200 gms ash gourd Red chilly powder/green chilly salt Method: Grate ash gourd and keep them aside. Squeez them and remove water from it. Add salt and red chilly powder/green chilly Mix with the kuzhu vathal mavu and make small small balls. Keep them in the plastic sheet. Sun dry them. Fry and taste.
Thalir Vadam There are many types of recipes to prepare Thalir vadam. Here I am giving the easiest method to prepare them. With out sunlight with out strain you can prepare at anytime that too inside the house. 1 cup rice 5 -6 green chilly 1sp cumin seeds/ ommam Salt Method: Soak rice in water after wash for 2 hours. Grind that with out adding much water like thick paste. Add green chilly also with that. Add salt, cumin seeds after removing it from the mixer grinder Now take THALIR VADAM STAND and <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comffice:smarttags" /><st1:country-region><st1lace>greece</st1lace></st1:country-region> them and pour this dough on it. Or otherwise, take two tiffen plates ( stain less steel) <st1:country-region><st1lace>greece</st1lace></st1:country-region> them. Pour the dough on the plate and spread by rotating the plate. Place the plate in a pan, (like Idly plate) keeping one small cup in side the pan with water. And place this plate and lid it. After a min. open the lid and place the next plate. Peel the THALIR VADAM from the plate by hands with out spoiling the round shape. Put it on a clean cloth under the fan. With in 4 hours you can fry them or MW them. Enjoy delicious THALIR VADAMS. Note: You can add food colours or natural colours in this dough to make colourful vadams. You can prepare this for pregnant ladies and new mothers with out adding green chilies.
Tomato Vathal 1 cup tomato puree 2 cups Kuzhu vathal mavu Red chilly powder Salt Ommam/cumin seeds (Optional) Method: Make tomato puree or get tomato puree from market Add salt and red chilly powder Mix with the kuzhu vathal mavu and pure the mixture in th plastic sheet as round as pappad.. Keep them in the plastic sheet till they dry in the Sun. Fry / MW and taste.
Pazhaya thu vathal/leftover cooked rice vathal Pazhaya thu vathal/leftover cooked rice vathal 1 Cup cooked rice 2 – 3 spoons red chilly powder/ green chilly paste 1sp. 1 Big Onion Salt Method: Put the cooked rice in the mixer grinder and make a smooth paste. Add red chilly powder/ green chilly paste and salt. Add chopped onions. Make small balls out of it and sundry. Or make like gravy and pour like small pappad on the sheet. Note: If you don’t want to put the cooked rice in the mixer grinder, then just mix with onion, red chilly powder and salt by hand and make like CURD RICE. Then make small balls out of that and sundry them.
Aval (POHA) vathal 1 kg aval ¾ kg ash gourd Salt 200 gms green chilly cumin seeds/ ommam Method: For this vathal get thick aval. Wash aval two three times and put it in a vessel, fill with water. Keep it for 1/2 an hour Remove and squeeze it. Keep aside. Chop ash gourd or grate it. Squeeze it and remove water from it. Chop green chilly. Mix all the three in a big vessel and add ommam or cumin as per yor wish. Add salt. Make small small balls and keep them in the plastic sheet. Sun dry them. While frying this vadam will become 3 – 4 times big. And will be very tasty. Note: You can add chopped onion instead ash gourd.
Pazhaya thu vathal/leftover cooked rice vathal (2) 1 Cup cooked rice 2 – 3 spoons red chilly powder/ green chilly paste 1sp. Salt Method: Put the cooked rice in the mixer grinder and make a smooth paste. Add red chilly powder/ green chilly paste and salt. Make small balls out of it and sundry. Or make like gravy and pour like small pappad on the sheet.