Vella Seedai Recipe with step by step pictures. This recipe is very easy to prepare and taste very delicious. It a deep fried sweet prepared using rice flour, urad dal flour and jaggery.

Vella Seedai

Seedai one of the must make snacks for krishna jayanthi. This is my first attempt in making them. I have heard about disastrous stories of seedai bursting, so i kind of stayed away from them. And also we have shops here where they sells yummy crispy seedai. So never thought of making them in home. Since gokulashtami is around the corner and seedai is a must recipe to offer god. I decided to try it and post it here.

Ingredients for Vella Seedai Recipe

Rice Flour - 1 cup
Urad Dal Flour - 2 tsp
Unsalted Butter - 1.5 tbsp
Coconut - 1 tbsp grated
Jaggery - ¾ cup grated
Water - ½ cup
Sesame Seeds - 2 tsp
Oil for deep frying

Making the perfect and traditional seedai needs few preparations in advance. To get it right, you have to make rice flour and urad dal flour at home. But you can use store bought flours too. Other than that it is pretty easy. I have compiled all the reason why seedai burst in my notes section, so please make sure to check that.

Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you..

How to Make Vella Seedai

Take jaggery in a bowl, add in water and let them soak for 5 mins. Now take them in a pan and heat it, it will come to a boil. Strain this and set aside.
Take rice flour, urad dal flour in a dry pan and roast for 2 mins or so.
Take this in a sifter and sieve well.
Take this in a bowl, add in butter, sesame seeds, coconut in a bowl and mix well.
Add in jaggery water little by little and make a dough.
Take small portion from the mix and shape it into a small ball.
Set aside for 30 mins so it dries up.
Heat oil for deep frying, drop the seedai in oil and fry till it gets light color. Now reduce the flame to medium and fry till dark.
Drain and cool it down.
Store it in a container and enjoy.

Why Does Seedai Burst? TIPS TO AVOID THEM.

1)If your flour is not sifted well, it may have some lumps so it will burst.

2)The flour which you use should be very fine, if it is not ground finely, then it will have small grain which makes the seedai burst.

3)Pricking holes on all seedai will help to release the air trapped inside the seedai when you are making balls, this will avoid the seedai from bursting.

4)If you roll the balls tightly then the air bubbles will be trapped inside the seedai. This will make them burst. So roll gently and softly.

5)Drying the seedai for 30 mins, will dry it out and remove any moisture from it . This will prevent them from bursting.

If you have any questions not covered in this post and if you need help, leave me a comment or mail me @[email protected] and I’ll help as soon as I can.

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