Medhu Vadai /Urad Dhal Vada

Vadai is a popular snack and is usually served with coconut chutney and sambar. You can have it with tomato sauce also. In this recipe, I have soaked 1/2 tsp raw rice and 1/2 tsp fried gram (pottukadalai) along with urad dal for crispy vadas. My mother does awesome vadas and it is her recipe. Vada is delicious as such and even when soaked in sambar or rasam or curd. Let us go to the vada recipe.

Ingredients needed

Skinned whole urad dal - 1 cup
Green chilies -2
Raw rice -1/2 tsp
Fried gram- 1/2 tsp
Salt -1 tsp flat (crystal salt) or as required. (If using table salt use less)
Plastic sheet or banana leaf for making vadas
Oil for deep frying.

Method

Soak Urad dal along with 1/2 tsp rice and 1/2 tsp fried gram for half an hour and refrigerate it for 1 hour.

Drain the water and grind it along with green chillies and salt to a smooth and soft batter without adding water.If needed you can sprinkle very little water now and then.It is better to use the wet grinder for grinding. Your batter is now ready. (tips- to find out if your batter is ready, dampen your hand and take a small ball of batter - it should not stick to your hands)

Heat oil in a deep bottomed kadai.

Now take a bowl of water, dampen your fingers in it, take a lemon sized vada batter and flatten it slightly on a plastic sheet or back of the banana leaf. Make a hole in the middle. Now slowly transfer the shaped dough to your hands and slip it into the hot oil very gently. (be very careful while doing this)

Fry till it turns golden brown on both sides.

Remove it from oil.

Repeat the process. You can fry 3-4 vadas at a time depending on the size of your kadai and the amount of oil.



As soon as your remove the vada from oil, soak it in rasam for rasa vada.




Ingredients needed (For soaking 2 vadas)

Curd -1 -1 1/2 cups
Green chillie -1
Ginger -1 bit
Coriander powder -1/2 tsp
Cumin seed Powder -1/4 tsp
Coriander leaves -little (finely chopped)
Salt needed

Method

Grind green chillies and ginger to a fine paste and mix it with curd. Add salt needed, coriander powder and cumin seed powder to the curd.

Keep a bowl of warm water. As soon as your remove the vada from oil, soak it for a few seconds in water and then soak it in the prepared curd. Garnish with coriander leaves and enjoy.

I am sending this to WYF-Tea time snack event

Meet you all again with a wonderful post. Till then it is bye from Padhu