Urad Vada

Vada are a species of indian fritter made with various types of lintels. This is made with urad dhan which is protein rich. Its simple and easy to make. Here goes the recipe for urad dhal.

All u need..!!!
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1. Urad dhal - 2 cups(soaked in water for 4-6 hrs)
2. Black pepper( whole or powdered) - 3 tsp
3. Onion - 1 finely chopped
4. Curry leaves
5. Ginger - small finely cut
6. Green chillies - 2 finely cut
7. Salt to taste

How u go on making it...
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1. Clean the Urad dhal, cover with water and soak them 4-6 hrs.
2. Now drain them. In a blender, grind more than 1/2 of the dhal with 3-4 tsp of water until throughlly smooth and fluffy. Remove them from belnder.
3. Put the rest of the dhal in the blender and grind them like a coarse paste. Now add these with the fine ground dhal in a bowl.
4. To this, add the black pepper, chopped onions, curry leaves, ginger, chillies and salt to taste.
5. Heat a non stick frying pan. Now add enough oil for deep frying the vada.
6. Parallely with the prepared vada mix make vada with differnet shapes as u wish.
7. Once when the oil turns very hot drop these vadas into the pan and deep fry them. Turn the vadas such that both the sides turns gloden brown. Filter them from oil. Drain the oil using paper napkins and then server them hot.

These urad vadas tastes well with sambar and coconut chatni. Can have it as a starter or with any rice varities as side dish and also as snacks. It tastes great.:)