Name: Rice Flour Onion Vada | Ulli Vada Recipe
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 15 min
Ingredients: Rice flour – 1 cup; Onions – 1 bowl (thin slices); Green chillies – 1 tbsp. (finely sliced); Ginger grate – 1 tbsp.; Salt – ½ tbsp.; Red chilli powder – ½ tbsp.; Coriander leaves – 2 tbsp.; Garam masala powder – ½ tbsp.; Water to knead; Oil to deep fry

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Rice flour onion vada | Ulli Vada Recipe is one of the crunchy and soft fritters made with onions and rice flour as main ingredients. Learn how to make rice flour onion vada with step by step image instruction along with tips and a video.

Ulli vada is adopted from Kerala style, it is one of the popular evening snacks which can be prepared instantly and with fewer ingredients. This recipe can be prepared using gram flour but I made a mild change where we use only rice flour.

Using gram flour will give a slightly soft texture but as we have used only rice flour it has a crisp texture and we will feel light on the stomach. Adding besan flour will make it onion parkora with slight changes in ingredients.

During the process of deep-frying batter is shaped into cutlets and then fried at low to medium temperature so that we have a crispy layer with soft and cooked onions inside. One hardly finds oil over vada and tastes great when served with tomato ketchup.

Contents

Tips to make a perfect Rice flour onion vada:

Slicing onions into thin wafers will make it absorb spices.
While adding water pour in small quantity so that batter remains hard.
Make cutlet shape and keep aside so that they dry and absorb less oil.
When deep-frying, maintain low to medium flame so that we get a crispy texture.

Rice Flour Onion Vada | Ulli Vada Recipe

Rice flour onion vada | Ulli Vada Recipe is one of the crunchy and soft fritters made with onions and rice flour as main ingredients.

Course Snack

Cuisine Indian

Keyword Rice flour onion vada, Ulli Vada Recipe

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 10 minutes

Total Time 15 minutes

Servings 3

Author Uppada Lakshmi

Ingredients

Rice flour – 1 cup
Onions – 1 bowl thin slices
Green chillies – 1 tbsp. finely sliced
Ginger grate – 1 tbsp.
Salt – ½ tbsp.
Red chilli powder – ½ tbsp.
Coriander leaves – 2 tbsp.
Garam masala powder – ½ tbsp.
Water to knead
Oil to deep fry

Instructions

Make thin slices of onions so that they can be squeezed and mixed along with rice flour.
Put them into a mixing bowl, add salt, green chillies, coriander leaves, ginger grate, garam masala powder, red chilli powder, coriander powder and little oil.
Mix all ingredients so that water from onions gets released.
Put rice flour in small batches and mix tell we get a thick batter.
When batter turns hard, sprinkle few water drops or just wet your hands and mix batter so that they become semi-soft.
Divide batter into small balls and press to form disc shape and keep aside for a minute.
Meanwhile, heat oil in a pan at a high flame. When oil attains optimum temperature lower the flame.
Put ulli vada one by one and deep fry till they change their colour.
Flip to the other side and continue deep-frying till they attain golden brown color and get a crispy texture.
Remove from oil and transfer rice flour onion vada to serving plate and serve with tomato ketchup in a small bowl.

Recipe Video

How to make rice flour onion vada recipe:

1. Slice onions into thin slices and put them in a mixing bowl.

2. Add finely sliced green chillies, ginger grate, salt and red chilli powder.

3. Put little oil, coriander leaves, garam masala powder and mix well.

4. Add rice flour in small quantity and mix well till the moisture from onions is mixed with rice flour. Add water in a small quantity and mix well till we get a thick batter.