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How to Make Pori Vadai | Easy Instant Medu Vadai with Leftover Puffed Rice

How to Make Pori Vadai | Easy Instant Medu Vadai with Leftover Puffed Rice

If you have leftover puffed rice at home, you can turn it into a crispy, delicious snack in just minutes!This guide will show you how to make Pori Vadai, a quick and easy instant Medu Vadai recipe prepared using leftover puffed rice (pori/murmura).
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Total Time 25 minutes
Servings: 5
Course: snacks
Cuisine: SouthIndian
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • Poha / Pori – 3 cups (60 gms)

    Rava – ½ cup (90 gms)

    Finely chopped onion – ½ cup

    Rice flour – ½ cup (60 gms)

    Green chillies (finely chopped) – 2 tbsp

    Minced ginger – 1 tbsp

    Curry leaves (finely chopped) – few

    Coriander leaves (finely chopped) – 2 tbsp

    Jeera – 1 tsp

    Salt – to taste

    Baking soda – a pinch

    Curd – ½ cup (120 gms)

Method
 

  1. Grind puffed rice & rava into a fine powder.
    2.Add this to a mixing bowl Add Rice flour with needed salt.
    3.Add Chopped onion, Chopped Green chillies,Ginger,Curry leaves & cumin.
Mix them add curd & mix.Now add little water at a time & make a soft dough as shown.
Add Chopped coriander mix & keep.
    4.Now heat up oil in a kadai.Test by adding a pinch of dough if it s hot.
    5.Wet the pads with water shape the dough like Meduvada.
    6.Gently drop it in oil fry till golden in medium high flame.
    7.Adjust the flame it becomes too hot.
    8.Do the same for all the vada’s Take out in a tissue.
    9.Serve hot with Coconut chutney.
    10.Its crispy on the outside & soft in the inside.
    How to Make Pori Vadai | Easy Instant Medu Vadai with Leftover Puffed Rice

Notes

  • Do not add too much water — dough will turn sticky.
  • Fry on medium flame High for even cooking.
  • Adding a pinch of baking soda makes it softer, fluffier vadai.
  • If mixture becomes too soft, add 1–2 tbsp rice flour.