Thandai ke vadey

thandai ke vadey

Thandai ke vadey is a special sweet dish in holi. It is a cottage cheese ball stuffed with flevoured mawa.

Ingredients

Cottage cheese                         500 gm

Fennel powder                           1 – 2 tsp

Dry mango powder                     2 tsp

Fennel seed                              1 tsp

Poppy seeds soaked in

warm water                                7 – 8 tsp

Dry rose petals                          ½ cup

Corn flour                                  as required

For filling

Mawa                                        3 tbsp

Orange colour                            1 tsp                                        

Melon seeds                              2 – 3 tsp

Almond finely chopped               1 – 2 tsp

Cashew nuts finely chopped       1 – 2 tsp

Kewda essence                         2 tsp

Rose water                                2 tsp

Milk                                          2 tbsp

Method

Take a bowl, add grated cottage cheese, fennel powder, dry mango powder, fennel seeds, soaked poppy seeds with its water, dried rose petals and mix well.

mix all ingredients for prepare vadey

Then for binding, add corn flour. Check it is enough for proper binding or not. Keep it aside.

add corn flour for binding

For filling

Now take a another bowl, add mawa, orange colour, melon seeds, almonds, cashew nuts, kewda essence, rose water, milk and prepare a filling.

prepare filling

Heat oil in a pan.

Now make small balls from cottage cheese mixture and stuff mawa filling in the balls.

stuffed vadey

Then coat the stuffed balls with corn flour for better binding.

Fry them in oil for 3 – 4 minutes on low flame. 

deep fry the vadey 

Remove on tissue paper.

fried vadey on tissue 

Now cut the balls in half, place on serving plate and garnish the vadas with dried rose petals, cashew nuts, almonds, fennel-cardamom powder and saffron flavoured sugar syrup.

garnish the thandai ke vadey