Maddur Vada Recipe (Air Fryer & Deep Fried) | Authentic Karnataka Style Maddur Vade Recipe

12 Feb Maddur Vada Recipe (Air Fryer & Deep Fried) | Authentic Karnataka Style Maddur Vade Recipe

Last Updated on February 12, 2026 by blessmyfoodbypayal

Maddur Vada Recipe (Air Fryer & Deep Fried) | Authentic Karnataka Style Maddur Vade Recipe with step wise pictorial and video method.

Belonging to Karnataka State of India, Maddur Vada, also called by the name Maddur Vade is a delicious crispy tea time snack named after the town “Maddur” in Mandya district.

If you go by the list of ingredients of this authentic Maddur Vada recipe from Karnataka, you will be amazed to see that it is made with minimal ingredients hardly using any spices.

Usually tea time snacks are loaded with lots of ground spices to become flavourful but this Karnataka style tea time snack Maddur Vada calls for just hing and salt in the name of spices, yet too delicious, too flavoured.

This snack is very common at Maddur railway station between Bengaluru and Mysuru, and besides that sold at local bakeries as well.

This traditional Maddur Vada from Maddur railway station reminds us the most popular and loved snack Railway cutlets because such snacks are pure emotions and nostalgia connecting the States and regions.

Bakery style Maddur Vada recipe is such a snack that is crisp from outside yet slightly soft inside. Though the recipe has least ingredients but the juice released from onion itself is the best ingredient in itself making this authentic South Indian Maddur Vada recipe, the best homemade Maddur Vada recipe.

As it is a Street food, so quite obvious that traditionally made by deep frying, but when you are recreating the street food at home, you have the liberty to reshape the dish. 

And for that reason, you can replace maida with atta, skip semolina and opt for baking in oven or air frying.

Though baking/air frying doesn’t bring much difference in authentic taste but yes, if you replace maida with atta and skip semolina, taste and texture may collapse. So it is suggested to make this crispy and flaky Maddur Vada recipe at home using all the ingredients as it is without making any alternations, except the quantity. Quantity here means you can reduce the quantity of maida and semolina.

Although not the part of authentic Maddur Vade Recipe, but you can add chopped nuts of your choice for extra richness.

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MADDUR VADA AND MEDU VADA :

Medu Vada is one of the most popular South Indian snack and please don’t get confused with the two. Both Medu Vada and Maddur Vada are altogether different.

• Maddur Vada is flat and crisp but Medu Vada is soft and fluffy.
• Maddur Vada is made using rice flour, all purpose flour, semolina and onion as the prime ingredients but Medu Vada is made using urad dal.
• And lastly, Maddur Vade is served with coconut chutney and tea or filter coffee but on the contrary, medu Vada is served with Sambar and coconut chutney.

So go ahead and try this most delicious and crispy tea time snack Maddur Vada.

Step wise pictorial recipe of Maddur Vada Recipe (Air Fryer & Deep Fried) :

Take a bowl and add onion in it. For this recipe, the onion is cut lengthwise only. Then add all the other ingredients i.e. roasted peanuts (chopped), white sesame seeds, asafoetida (hing), green chilies (chopped), curry leaves (chopped), coriander leaves, ginger (grated) and salt. Also add rice flour, all purpose flour and semolina. Lastly add hot oil. Mix it by pressing the onion so well that it releases it’s flavour and moisture.

Now start adding water, little at a time for kneading a dough. The dough has to be really tight. Put it on rest for 5 minutes.

Now take a small  portion of dough and roll it like a ball. Then flatten it between your palms. It should neither be too thin nor too thick. Also try to keep it round as much as possible, though not to so strict. Instead of doing it between palms, you can flatten the balls on a clean surface as well.

For DEEP FRYING, put them into medium hot oil and fry till golden and crisp from both the sides. 

For AIR FRYING, put them greased air fryer basket. Apply oil on them. Air fry @180°C for 10 minutes. Open the air fryer, turn the sides of vadas and again brush oil on the top. Again Air Fry for 8 minutes at the similar temperature.

Air Fryer Maddur Vade are ready. Serve hot with coconut chutney. 

NOTES

1. For the crispy Vada, try to keep the dough as tight as possible.
2. Do not add water until onion releases it’s moisture to the flour. It will help you to understand that how much water is needed.
3. It can be stored in Air tight container for a week.

Maddur Vada Recipe (Air Fryer & Deep Fried) – Recipe Card

Maddur Vada Recipe (Air Fryer & Deep Fried) | Authentic Karnataka Style Maddur Vade Recipe

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Maddur Vada Recipe (Air Fryer & Deep Fried) is a crispy, flavorful Karnataka snack made with rice flour, semolina, and spices.

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Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 30 minutes mins

Course snacks

Cuisine karnataka

Servings 15 Vadas

Ingredients

  

1 cup = 250 ml

• 1 cup onion (cut lengthwise)
• 1 cup rice flour
• 1 cup all purpose flour
• 1/2 cup semolina/rava/suji
• 2 tbsp roasted peanuts (chopped)
• 2 tbsp white sesame seeds
• Pinch of asafoetida (hing)
• 2 green chilies (chopped)
• 2 tbsp curry leaves (chopped)
• 2 tbsp coriander leaves
• 1 tbsp ginger (grated)
• 1 tsp salt
• 2 tbsp hot oil (plus for frying)
• Water as required

Instructions

 

• Take a bowl and add onion in it. For this recipe, the onion is cut lengthwise only.
• Then add all the other ingredients i.e. roasted peanuts (chopped), white sesame seeds, asafoetida (hing), green chilies (chopped), curry leaves (chopped), coriander leaves, ginger (grated) and salt.
• Also add rice flour, all purpose flour and semolina.
• Lastly add hot oil.
• Mix it by pressing the onion so well that it releases it's flavour and moisture.
• Now start adding water, little at a time for kneading a dough.
• The dough has to be really tight.
• Put it on rest for 5 minutes.
• Now take a small portion of dough and roll it like a ball.
• Then flatten it between your palms. It should neither be too thin nor too thick.
• Also try to keep it round as much as possible, though not to so strict.
• Instead of doing it between palms, you can flatten the balls on a clean surface as well.
• For DEEP FRYING, put them into medium hot oil and fry till golden and crisp from both the sides.
• For AIR FRYING, put them greased air fryer basket.
• Apply oil on them.
• Air fry @180°C for 10 minutes.
• Open the air fryer, turn the sides of vadas and again brush oil on the top.
• Again Air Fry for 8 minutes at the similar temperature.
• Air Fryer Maddur Vade are ready. Serve hot with coconut chutney.

Notes

1. For the crispy Vada, try to keep the dough as tight as possible.
2. Do not add water until onion releases it's moisture to the flour. It will help you to understand that how much water is needed.
3. It can be stored in Air tight container for a week.

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