MEDU VADA

 Medu Vada

Vada is a traditional south Indian dish made from white lentils. This crisp donut shaped goodness can be had as Sambhar vada and can be had as dahi-vada too.it depends on batter consistency wether they turn out crispy outside and soft inside. The hole inside it marks it as a vada.

Ingredients:-

1 cup split urad daal (soaked for minimum 3 hours and drained)

2-3 green chillies chopped

1 tsp. ginger grated

7-8 raisins (soaked)

Salt to taste

½ tsp. black pepper powder

1 tbsp. oil

1 tbsp. gram flour

½ tsp. mustard seeds

4-5 curry leaves

Oil for deep frying

Method:-

• Grind the urad daal finely without using just a little water. Add salt to this paste.

• Take pan and heat 1 tbsp. oil. Add curry leaves and mustard seeds. When it crackles, add this to vada mixture.

• Add chopped green chillies, grated ginger and black pepper powder and stir well. Lastly add gram flour which helps it in frying and gives a nice brown colour.

• Heat oil in kadhai for deep frying.

• Apply oil in hands. Place 1 tbsp. of vada mixture in hand and carefully make a hole in between with the help of your thumb.

• Transfer the vada slowly into oil.it will inflate a little and will get brown. There is a trick to make a good vada. Firstly we must make vada as soon as we make the mixture. The fermented mixture tends to absorb more oil. You must check the oil by dropping a drop of vada mixture at start so that you have an idea about how it will come out.

• The vada is ready when it turns brown from all sides.

• Serve hot with Sāmbhar and coconut chutney.