Cheese Stuffed Mushroom Vada / fritters

Today is another type of fritter, Ideal both for tea time as well as starter/ appetizer for parties. These fritters are easy to make, delicious in taste. I have used button mushrooms for these fritters and stuffed it with cheese filling. For healthy vadapav, You can use it as vada in vadapav to replace potato vada. 

Preparation Time : 5-7 minutes
Cooking time : 15 minutes
Serving - 4

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup grated cheese
• 1 teaspoon chopped green chilli
• 2 teaspoon chopped garlic cloves
• 2 tablespoon chopped celery
• salt to taste
• 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
• oil for deep frying
• 1/2 cup gram flour
• 1 tablespoon rice flour (optional)
• 1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder
• pinch of asafetida
• 8-10 fresh big button mushrooms

 Method: 

1. Combine Cheese, chopped green chili, garlic and celery, salt and ground black pepper and keep aside.
2. Meanwhile heat the oil in a deep frying pan for vada / fritters.
3. For the outer coating, combine gram flour, rice flour, asafetida, salt and turmeric powder in a bowl, add 1 tablespoon of hot oil and make thick batter using water.
4. Take out stem of button mushroom and in that hole, fill the stuffing of cheese mixture. Repeat this with each mushroom.
5. Dip each cheese stuffed mushroom into the batter and allow it to coat the mixture well.
6. Deep fry in hot oil on medium flame till golden brown. Drain on kitchen paper and keep aside. 
7. Serve hot with tomato ketchup or any tangy / spicy sauce.