Today I wanted to prepare something different to go with our evening coffee. Something other than the usual masal vadai,bajji,bonda and pakoda.I browsed through DK’s blog and found sago vada..It looked so yumm,so crispy that I was immediately tempted.I ran to the kitchen to check if I had sago.Yes I did!!
I imagined sipping hott coffee,biting into crisp vadas and chit chatting with hubby dear on this cold winter evening.How good it felt…
I looked at the clock,1 and a half hours before hubby dear returned home.Enthusiastically,I called up hubby dear and told him I had a surprise waiting for him at home.
Handing over my lil angel to MIL, I started the pre -preparation.The ingredients had to soak for an hour.I had more than enough time.Everything mixed and soaking.After 15 minutes I peeked into the mix.The sago had absorbed all the liquid[curd] so I added a little water for it to soak..Another 15 minutes and again I checked.Now it was a little watery.The sago had not absorbed the water as I thought it would :(..Now I added a little rice flour, mixed it well and waited for hubby dear to come home.
Hubby dear arrived with great expectations and I ran[yes,again] to the kitchen and switched on the kadai with oil[kept ready on the stove half an hour ago] and started dropping the mini vada’s in oil.I put 5 small vadas’ in a batch.
The oil was bubbling and the aroma filled the house.Hubby dear came in to see the surprise and smiled at the aroma.I chased him off to play with our lil angel and I waited till the vada turned brown.
Pop…Pop…Pop..Pop..Pop..what was that??? The vadas’ were popping in the oil.Some split open,others assumed the form of a double decker ball,one looked like a duck!!! Oil splattered and just missed me…
Not deterred by these developments ,I waited for it to cook and took out the brown vadas and placed them on a plate.I pacified myself telling-‘So what if the shape looked funny,its the taste that matters’..The color was perfect and I could not stop myself from tasting one small vada. To my horror it was chewy and I felt I was chewing a savory chewing gum..I don’t know what went wrong..
OMG..What do I do now..Nothing…Leaving aside the rest of the batter,I silently prepared hot coffee and served hubby dear and sat beside him and told him softly-‘Don’t even ask me what happened to the surprise’..He went to the kitchen and came back with a puzzled look..[Yes,I had hidden the ‘tragedy’ vadas].
So it was just coffee and chit chat..Gone was the dream of a crispy snack..Nope,I am not going to leave it like that..Will try again after RM#2 and look into what went wrong and perfect it…
Here are the Vadas..take a look…
The duck…
The savory chewing gum..
The duck surrounded by the split and double decker vadas ..
Go ahead girls,laugh at me and my sago vada[ and also the poor lighting and out-of-focus pic]…
Mine was a sure flop but our dear DK has made a prefect Sago vada ..Don’t forget to check it out.
PS:This is not my entry for RM#2.The recipe is here
tempting sago vada. good one. m yet to try out.
Oh this is nothing – you don’t know what happened to my brownie even before it was to be baked 😀
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Worry not, you have some tough competition. And anyway bhawana is finding the chewy duck shaped vadas tempting – nothing shows through the internet unless you tell us 😀
there are so many ingredients i havent cooked with ..sago is one of them…they look great!!!
lovely vadas……i never make them bcoz it has to be deep-fried….but making them once in a while is ok…
Oh, so sad. Hope you’ll try and get it right, next time.I bet you want to :).
If you have not told, we would have not know, vada looks crisp and good.
Sago vada is yummy… i love deep fried item in anyform…looks gr8
As lakshmi says.It happens lot of time in my kitchen too..The outcome is not too bad..Shapes never mattered..Looks crispy
dont worry it happens to everyone and i loved the way you presented I am sure when u read after a while u will have a smile on your face. Keep trying till u suceed and then post abt it we are waiting
Kitchen disasters happen to everyone..me included..have so many untold tales..;-)sabudana vadas are a treat..loved the shapes though..;-)
unlucky hubbydear!! or lucky??
Knw what Pj, i, an amatuer cook, ends up like this most of the time. i use to feel disappointed then but after readin this post, i feel energetic thinkin that, if great cooki lik Pj ends up lik this then nothing wrong in me doin it,..
keep up the good work Pj,.. ya the best!!
So what if the vadas did not turn out right. I did laugh out loud, but that’s because you narrated the funny part so well – it was very entertaining and had all the right elements of suspense and humor in it. You should consider a career in writing 🙂
About the sago wadas.. I suspect the rice flour had something to do with the chewiness. Sago does soak up water pretty quickly on the outside. But it takes at least 2 hours for the water to reach the inner depths of each sago “pearl”. What has worked for me is to soak the sago with water level a couple millimeter above the sago level and then leave it alone for 2-3 hours.