Batata Vada

Ingredients

• 3 medium potatoes
• 1 onion (add another if you like your onions)
• Handful of Coriander
• Several chillies to taste
• Lemon juice
• Chilli pwds
• Cinnamon
• Cloves
• Salt
• Some sugar
• Oil for frying

Batter mix

• Besan/Gram flour
• Pinch of salt.
• Water

Method

• Boil the potatoes and mash
• Chop onions
• Finely chop chillies and coriander
• Add to the mash, the chopped onions, chillies and coriander
• Grind cinnamon and cloves in a spice grinder and add to the mash
• Add sugar and lemon juice
• Mix well and taste, adjust as required
• Make round balls of the mash, around golf ball size.
• Prepare batter using gram flour
• Drop several round balls at a time into the batter and fry in oil till golden brown.