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.
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.
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Vella Seedai Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup Rice Flour HOMEMADE
- 2 tsp Urad Dal Flour HOMEMADE
- 1.5 tbsp Unsalted Butter
- 1 tbsp grated Coconut
- ¾ cup grated Jaggery
- ½ cup Water
- 2 tsp Sesame Seeds
- Oil for deep frying
Instructions
- 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.
- Now 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 colour. Now reduce the flame to medium and fry till dark.
- Drain and cool it down.
- Store it in a container and enjoy.
Notes
Nutrition
Vella Seedai Recipe Step by Step
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| Take all your ingredients |
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| Take jaggery in a bowl |
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| add in water |
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| soak for 5 mins, so the jaggery softens |
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| Pour that into a pan |
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| heat till it is melted and comes to a boil |
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| strain the mix |
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| set aside |
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| In a dry pan, add in rice flour |
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| in the same pan add in urad dal flour |
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| roast it little |
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| put that in a sifter |
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| sieve well |
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| take it in a bowl |
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| add in butter |
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| add in sesame seeds |
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| and finely grated coconut |
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| add in jaggery water little by little |
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| knead it to a soft dough..you wont be needing all the jaggery water |
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| take a small portion |
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| roll into a smooth ball |
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| set aside for 30 mins so it dries a little |
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| for testing, drop one seedai in hot oil and step away.. |
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| if it didn't pop then it is safe to fry the remaining ones |
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| drop a whole bunch of seedai in oil |
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| keep frying them..when it gets a nice colour, reduce the flame to medium and fry |
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| it will get dark |
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| let them fry |
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| now strain them |
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| cool it and store in a air tight container |
Sindhuraj
Where did you bought bucket shaped bowl??