By Rajlakshmi
January 15, 2026
Sabudana, or tapioca pearls, is one of the most tried ingredients due to its flexibility. Sabudana vadas are loaded with textures and flavours-crispy, soft, mildly spicy, and a hint of tanginess.
1 cup sabudana, soaked 2 potatoes 5-6 garlic cloves 4-5 green chillies 1 small piece of ginger 1 tsp sugar 1 tsp roasted coriander powder 1 tsp roasted cumin powder Salt, to taste 1 tsp chaat powder 2 finely chopped garlic cloves
¼ cup chopped curry leaves 1 small cup chopped coriander leaves 20 peanuts 1 cup hung curd
Strain the soaked sabudana thoroughly. Make a paste of garlic, green chillies and ginger.
Roast the peanuts. Boil the potatoes and mash them into clumps.
Add the paste, roasted cumin and coriander powder, sugar, and salt to sabudana. Add curry and coriander leaves, and the crushed and roasted peanuts.
Add the mashed potato clumps. Mix all the ingredients. Make balls out of the sabudana mix, and flatten them a bit.
In a bowl, add hung curd, chaat masala, and finely chopped garlic. Mix everything.
Add hung curd and roasted peanut chutney. Mix over it till the ingredients are ensconced together in a vada.
Heat enough oil in a pan to deep fry the sabudana vadas.
Fry till it turns golden brown. Serve with tea and coffee with green chutney.