Ingredients:

• 1 cup – gram flour (besan)
• 1 cup – buttermilk
• 2 cups – water
• 1 tsp – all purpose flour
• 4 – Green chillies (finely chopped)
• 1/2 cup – shredded Coconut
• 1 tbsp – oil
• 1 tbsp – coriander (finely chopped)
• 3-4 pinches – Asafoetida
• 1/2 tsp – Mustard Seeds
• salt to taste

Method:

1. In a bowl, add gram flour, all purpose flour, buttermilk and water. Mix it well till it forms a smooth batter. Add green chillies and salt to taste.
2. Mix grated coconut and chopped coriander. If you like, you can add some green chillies to this mixture.
3. Keep a plastic sheet ready.
4. Heat the oil. Add mustard seeds to it.
5. When mustard seeds crackle, add asafoetida. Cool this seasoning.
6. On a medium flame, cook the batter by stirring continuously, until it turns into a thin film.
7. Immediately place this mixture on the half portion of a plastic sheet.
8. Cover it with the remaining half portion.
9. Lightly spread the mixture with the help of rolling pin to form a thin film of batter.
10. Garnish it with seasoning and coconut-coriander mixture.
11. Cut the spread sheet vertically into thin strips of desired width. Then roll each strip into vadi.

Recipe courtesy of Sandhya