Today's
recipe is yet another fried snack. One could
call it a rainy day snack with a hot cup of coffee or tea, as you would like
it. But, who needs a rainy reason to
have these yummy pop in snack. Once in a
while treat yourself to these vadas, which are crunchy on the outside and soft
inside and am sure you can't stop at one.
Serve them with ketchup or green chutney. Made vadas with split green gram lentils (moong dal
as we call in India). Just a few
ingredients and we are done. So here
goes how I made these vadas.
Split green gram lentil (moong dal)
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1 cup
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Green chillies (chopped finely)
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2
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Ginger (chopped finely)
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An inch
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Asafoetida
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1/2 tsp
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Salt
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1 tsp
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Coriander leaves (chopped
finely)
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2 tbsp
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Cumin seeds
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1/2 tsp
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Curry leaves (chopped finely)
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10-12
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Oil
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For frying
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Semolina/sooji (optional)
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1 tbsp
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1. Wash the lentils well. Soak the
green gram lentils for 3 hours with enough water, (about 2 1/2 cups).
2. After 3 hours, drain the water from the lentils and blend the
lentils in a grinder along with finely chopped chillies, cumin seeds and ginger
to a coarse paste, with just about 2 tbsp of water.
3. Transfer the ground lentils into a bowl. Add salt, asafoetida, curry leaves and
coriander leaves and mix well.
4. Heat oil in a kadai/wok on high flame. Lower the flame to medium once the oil is
hot. Use a spoon or with the fingers
drop the vadas in hot oil.
5. Fry on medium flame until golden brown. Drain well and remove them on absorbent
paper.
6. Serve them hot with ketchup or chutney as you like. Or you could serve it with a dip too.
7. Just use some hung curd, add a bit of chilli powder, chop up a flake
of garlic really fine. Add salt and you
are good to go.
NOTES:
1. I have mentioned semolina, you could add the semolina if you like a
more crunchy taste. I made it with and
without the semolina.
2. You could add finely chopped onions to the batter. They would surely enhance the taste.
3. Fry them on medium flame only.
Else higher the flame they will be raw inside and lower the flame they
will soak up too much oil.
4. Green chutney is as mentioned in the previous recipe.
*step by step pics will be updated soon.
