Corn Vada

Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 10 minutes
Makes approximately 12 -15 vadas

Ingredients:

• Corn kernels - 2 cups/250gms
• Green chilly - 2
• Ginger - 1/2 an inch sized piece
• Salt - to taste
• Asafoetida - a pinch
• Saunf - 1/2 tsp
• Corn flour - 1 tsp
• Gram flour/Besan - 1 tsp
• Rice flour - 1tsp
• Oil - for deep frying

Preparation:

• Take one and half cups of Corn kernels, 2 green chillies, ginger, asafoetida and salt and grind them together a little coarsely.
• Transfer this into a bowl and now add in the remaining 1/2 cup of corn kernels, corn flour, gram flour, rice flour and saunf and mix them together.
• Heat oil in a deep frying pan.
• Grease your plam with a little water; take a small lemon sized quantity of the corn vada mixture; place it on your palm and gently pat it to flatten it a little. 
• Follow this procedure for the remaining corn vada mixture.
• Deep fry them on hot oil for a few minutes, until it turns golden brown.
• Remove them from oil and drain excess oil using a paper towel. 
• Serve them hot along with tomato ketchup.