Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, chana dal vada. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Masala vada or chana dal vada is a popular lentil snack from south Indian cuisine. They are made using bengal gram, spices and herbs. It is a street food and is also made in most homes.
Chana Dal vada is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Chana Dal vada is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chana dal vada using 13 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Chana Dal vada:
- Get 1 cup chana dal or bengal gram
- Make ready as needed salt
- Make ready 1 inch cinnamon or dalchini
- Take 1-2 red chilli
- Prepare 3/4 teaspoon jeera or cumin
- Get 3/4 teaspoon saunf or fennel seeds
- Take 1 onion chopped (medium sized)
- Prepare Handful pudina or mint
- Take 10-12 curry leaves chopped
- Prepare 1 1/4 teaspoon ginger garlic paste
- Take 1-2 green chilies chopped
- Prepare 1 pinch Turmeric or haldi
- Prepare As required oil for deep frying
While growing up, chana dal vada used to be one of our favorite fried snack. Wash the dal in a bowl several times or under running water and transfer to a bowl. Masala Vada, a crispy and savory deep fried fritter made from chana dal and spices, is a popular street food of South Indian cuisine. It is also known as Paruppu Vadai in Tamilnadu.
Steps to make Chana Dal vada:
- Add chana dal to a bowl and wash it with lot of water a few times. Soak it in good amount of water for 1½ hours.
- Drain completely to a colander. Powder cinnamon, red chilli, jeera and saunf coarsely in a blender jar. Set this aside along with 2 tbsp soaked chana dal.
- Add the drained chana dal & salt to the same blender jar.Pulse it a few times until it turns to a coarse mixture.The dough must have some uncrushed chana dal. Transfer to a bowl.
- Next add finely chopped mint, curry leaves, onion, masala powder we just made above.Also add green chilies and ginger garlic paste. Mix everything well. Taste and add more salt if needed. Take a handful of the dough & check if it binds well.
- To check make a ball & then flatten it to a masala vada. The mixture must have a good binding to shape them to vadas. - Remove this to your fingers & check if the masala vada is binding well. If the mixture doesn't bind well, then take a handful of this mixture and blend to a smooth paste.
- Mix that with the rest of the dough. How to make masala vada Heat oil in a deep pan on a medium flame. Divide the dough to 10 parts. Make small balls and flatten them on your palm.
- You can also make these on a greased plastic sheet or dry cloth.Check if the oil is hot enough by gently dropping a small portion to the oil.The dough must rise without browning quickly. Slide masala vada one by one gently to the hot oil.
- You can add about 3 to 4 vedas in each batch.do not disturb them immediately otherwise they will break.
- On a medium flame deep fry the masala vadas until golden & crisp on both the sides.Transfer the masala vadai to a kitchen tissue.
- Fry the rest of them in batches following the same procedure.
- Serve masala vada hot with chutney or ketchup.
Besides chana dal, the other important ingredient in masala vada which plays a major role for its flavorful taste is onion. Wash the dal in a bowl several times or under running water and transfer to a bowl. Do not over soak the chana dal or else the dal vadas won't turn out crunchy on frying. South Indian chana dal vada recipe is a crispy deep fried savory made from bengal gram. This crunchy and mildly spicy dumplings or vada are very popular in Southern India.
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