Coriander Vada:
Wash the whole coriander, cut the stems and chop finely. Keep them aside.
Make a paste by grinding cumin seeds, garlic cloves and green chillies.
Pour small quantities of water to start forming the dough.
Knead gently to make the dough soft. Set it aside.
Dough:
In a large wide vessel, mix besan, rice flour, turmeric powder, chopped coriander, garlic-chilli paste, and sesame seeds.
Add salt to taste.
Cooking and Frying/Roasting
Preheat your steamer or cooker by filling water up to the base of the plates when placed inside. Bring the water to a boil by covering the lid.
Divide the dough into parts and form a cylindrical shape with your hands. Keep in mind the size of your steamer plates.
If you have smaller plates, you can make round lemon-sized balls and flatten them into a circle.
Grease the steamer plates with ghee, arrange the dough shapes with a 1/2-inch gap between each, and set the plates inside the steamer or cooker.
Let it steam for about 15-20 minutes.
Take a fork, knife or toothpick to prick and check if the vadas are cooked through.
Cool them and slice the cylindrical-shaped steamed dough into pieces (you do not have to slice them if you have made them into circles).
Take a frying pan, pour oil and heat it on a high flame till the oil gets hot.
Then reduce to medium flame and fry the slices.
If you do not prefer to fry, you can roast them golden brown on a hot flat pan with oil smeared on them.
Serve it with the preferred dip.