How to cook aaloo (colocasia) wadi

Soak tamarind in water for 10 min

Take chickpea flour in a bowl . Add salt, carrom seeds.

Add turmeric and chilli powder

Add cumin and coriander powder.

Add half of the sesame seeds. Add tamarind pulp to this and mix well. Note: crushing the tamarind sosked in water nicely will give you a nice tamarind pulp . You can use ready made extract too.

Prep your leaves so they can be easily be rolled cut out thick stems off the leaf

Take a big leave and apply the chickpea paste with a spoon

Then arrange another leaf on it

Continue the process of layering till all the leaves are exhaused.

Then roll them into a nice tight log. This is the messy part of this dish you bound to use ur hands . Lick them off once ur done 😜

Keep in a vessel which you can use to steam

Steam it in a steamer for 15-20 min . This will set the checkpeas paste and make a nice firm log

Once the log is cooled cut them in rounds . See the nice cross section. At this stage if ur health conscious you can eat it right away . But i am not so going to next step.

Heat oil and add mustard

Add sesame seeds

Then add all the peices and shallow fry thrm till crisp

See the change in color . You can also deep fry them in stead of shallow fry .

Serve with a wedge of lime.