Kayi vade recipe | Akki hittu poori | Coconut and rice flour vada
By Latha on April 2nd, 2016
Kayi vade or coconut rice flour vada recipe explained with step by step pictures and a video. Kayi vade or akki hittu pooris are the deep fried pooris prepared using ground coconut, ground spices (masala) and rice flour. Kayi vade or rice flour poori is an unique and tasty poori. Since it has all the spices you can just eat it without any side dish. Or if you wish you can serve it with coconut chutney.
These pooris are used as evening snacks. Kayi vade or rice pooris has little long shelf life and you can keep it for 2 to 3 days. Unlike mangalore buns or banana poori, these pooris are spicy in taste. I have 2 more poori recipes published on this website, one is regular plain poori prepared using wheat flour and the other one is north Karnataka style mixed flour poori recipe.
This rice poori recipe I learnt from my mother-in-law and she learnt it from her mother-in-law. She says during olden days, she used to grind the soaked rice using grinding stone. Also she says it was a tiresome job for her because she had to grind it with very minimum water to get stiff dough. Now since she uses rice flour her job has become simple and easy.
If you are looking for more snacks recipes then do check mangalore buns, maddur vada, stuffed mirchi bajji, mangalore bajji, mosaru kodubale, congress kadlekai, banana chips and crispy chilli bajji recipes.
I have made a video on this recipe with Kannada narration, which I have embedded it below. Kindly have a look!
Preparation time: 10 min
Cooking time: 20 min
Serves: 4
Ingredients: (measuring cup used = 240ml)
- 2 cup rice flour
- 1 cup grated coconut
- 2 - 4 red chilli
- 2 tsp coriander seeds
- 1/4 tsp jeera / cumin seeds
- 1 - 2 green chilli
- 2 tbsp finely chopped curry leaves
- Salt as per your taste
- oil for deep frying
Instructions for making kayi vade or akki hittu poori recipe:
- Grate the coconut and take coriander seeds, cumin seeds and red chilli as per the measurement.
- To begin with take rice flour in a big wide bowl. Dry grind red chilli, coriander seeds and cumin seeds. Add this ground spices to the rice flour.
- Dry grind grated coconut and add to the same bowl, which has rice flour and ground spices.
- Add in finely chopped curry leaves, green chilli and salt. You can also dry grind and add instead of chopping.
- Now add hot water and prepare soft but stiff dough. Please note you have to add just hot water, not boiling water.
- Add 2 tsp of oil and knead the dough again.
- Prepare soft but stiff dough, which is having regular poori dough consistency.
- Take a clean wet kitchen cloth. Place a lemon sized dough. Cover it with the cloth. Make circular shaped pooris either by rolling or patting.
- Heat oil in a deep frying pan. Carefully drop the rolled kayi vade or rice pooris in the oil and deep fry them.
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