Javvarisi vadam – Learn how to make sago vadam with step by step pictures. Javvarisi vathal is deep fried and served as side dish for rice or can be had as snack like crackers.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup Javvarisi Sago/ Tapioca pearls
- 5 Green chilli
- 1 tsp Cumin seeds
- ½ Lemon 's juice
- 5 cups Water
- Salt as needed
Instructions:
- Soak sago alteast for 2 hrs. I used black pepper sized sago which was perfect. So depending on the sago size the soaking time may vary. Just make sure sago is soaked well.
- When soaking, make sure water level is well above the sago.
- Boil 5 cups of water in a heavy bottomed vessel. I used my pot shaped pressure cooker.
- Add cumin seeds to the boiling water.
- Add soaked sago and keep cooking, stirring now and then to make sure its not stuck at the bottom. It takes some time for it to get cooked say roughly 8-10 mins.
- Meanwhile which you can grind green chillies with little water.
- Add it to the cooking sago along with required salt.
- Sago should be cooked as well as the consistency of the mixture should get thick like a kheer. Not too thick, coz it will get thicker as it cools down. So switch off accordingly.
- Add lemon juice lastly and mix well.
- To check sago is done, press in between the fingers and it should be soft in the middle too.
- Some times it will look whitish in the middle but it would have been already cooked. So dont see the white part to know if its cooked or not. As it cools, the whitish part will turn transparent.
- Once cooled down, wet and squeeze completely a white cloth and spread without any shrinks in a flat surface where you get plenty of sun.
- Pour half a ladle of the sago we prepared and spread to small disks. Make sure its not too thick, not too thin.
- Dry in hot sun for a day. In the evening, if the sun was hot enough, you will be able to peel off the vadam from the cloth/ sheet. If not, dry another day and try peeling.
- In cloth, reverse the cloth, wet it slightly in the back of the vadam and peel it. Otherwise it will be very hard.
- I did both in cloth and plastic sheets, In plastic sheets, it will be very easy job, just peel it, it will easily come off.
- Dry the peeled vadams in hot sun for next three days until its transparent like a glass.
- Try frying one to test and if its completely dried, it will be crisp. Otherwise it may stick to your teeth as you bite.
- To fry vadam, heat oil in kadai, fry in hot oil with the help of ladle to immerse the vadams completely in oil so that it gets fried well. Drain in paper towels.
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