MASALA VADA RECIPE

Masala vada is a very popular south Indian dish. It is mostly served in breakfast or as tea time snack. Masala vada is also a street food in Andhra and tamilnadu. They tastes so good. Crispy exterior and soft interior. I serve them with idly, lemon rice and dosa. We also make vada curry by using these vada. Will share that recipe some day.

I hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turned out for you.

Makes 10 to 12 vadas.

Ingredients  :

Pachhi sanagapappu/chana dal/Bengal gram : 1 cup

Chopped medium onion : 1

Chopped green chillies : 2

Chopped curry leaves : 2  strings

Chopped coriander leaves : 2 table spoons

Ginger garlic paste : 1 tea spoon

Garam masala powder : 3/4 tea spoon

Salt to taste

Cooking soda : 1 pinch

Oil for deep frying

Method :

Soak dal for 3 to 4 hours and wash it well and drain the water.

Now take dal in to a blender,add ginger garlic paste,salt, cooking soda,garam masala powder.

Now blend it coarsely without adding water. (Just pulse it for few seconds)

Now take this mixture into a bowl and add remaining ingredients and mix it well.

Now take some portion of vada mixture, press it with your both hands gently and give a vada shape as shown in pic and drop them in hot oil.

Fry until they changes into golden color and take into a plate and serve.

Pictorial :

Soak dal for few hours and wash it thoroughly and drain the water

Now take dal in a blender,add ginger garlic paste,garam masala,salt and cooking soda

Blend it coarsely without adding water

Now take this vada mixture into a bowl,add onions and chillies

Add curry leaves and coriander leaves

Mix it well

Give it a vada shape

Drop them in hot oil

Fry on both sides until they changes into golden color

Take them into a plate

Serve hot

DAHI VADA RECIPE/PERUGU VADA RECIPE (SOUTH INDIAN STYLE)

Hi, today I'm going to share another tasty south Indian style dahi vada. In telugu it's called perugu vada. Tastes absolutely amazing. Also easy to prepare. If you have any leftover vada at home you can easily make them within minutes. North Indian dahi vade or dahi bhalle recipe and taste is completely different from this recipe. But will sure try share north Indian style dahi vade recipe. You have them at any time. We also make dahi vada in another style, we make dahi kadi and soak vada for some time and will serve it. But this is the easy process to make dahi vade. Few years back I learnt this recipe from my Bade ammi who is a super cook, and everytime it turned out super delicious.

I hope you will give this s try and let me know how it turned out for you.

Ingredients for vada :

Urad dal/white lentils/minapappu : 250 grams

Salt : 1 tea spoon leveled

Cooking soda/soda bicorb : 1/4 tea spoon

oil for deep frying

To make dahi mixture ;

Yogurt/curd/dahi : 500 to 600 ml

Medium green chilly : 2

1 inch size ginger piece

Grated medium carrot : 1

salt to taste

Chopped coriander leaves : 1/4 cup

For tempering :

Oil : 1 tea spoon

Curry leaves : 1 string

Mustard seeds : 1/2 tea spoon

Method :

First wash and soak dal for 4 hours ,then take  dal into a blender add salt and soda bicarbonatethen without adding water blend into a coarse paste.

Now take this into a bowl and beat it well with your hands until batter becomes lite and fluffy.

Now heat oil in a pan make vada shape and drop them in hot oil. Fry on medium flame on both sides until they turns into golden color. Then take them into a plate

Now take 1/2 litre of water and butter milk, add some salt and soak fried vade  for 10 to 15 minutes.

Now take green chilly and ginger into a blender and blend it. Keep this a side.

While vade is soaking,take curd in a bowl whisk it well until smooth. Now add grated carrots,blended chilly and ginger, salt and mix it well. (if your curd is thick add some water)

Now to make tempering,heat oil In a pan add mustard seeds, let them crackle, then add curry leaves, now add this tempering to curd mixture and mix it well.

Now take soaked vada squeeze it gently and drop in tempered curd,just soak for 5 to 10 minutes and serve.

Soak dal for 4 hours

Take into a blender

Add salt and cooking soda

Blend it coarsely

Take this batter into a bowl beat it well for few minutes

Make vada and drop them in hot oil

Fry on both sides until they changes into golden color

Take them into a plate

Drop and soak them in butter milk or water For few minutes

Now take green chillies and ginger into a blender

Blend it coarsely

Now take curd in a bowl, whisk it well

Now add salt

Add grated carrots

Add chilly and ginger paste

Mix it well

Now make some tempering

Add it to curd mixture

Now take soaked vada, squeeze it gently

Drop them in curd mixture

Sprinkle some chopped coriander leaves

Serve!!!!!

minapa vada recipe/urad dal vada recipe

This is most popular dish in south india .in some places they call vada and in Andhra they call garelu and vada.there are many types of vadas are there which I'm going to share in my blog.

I know everyone know this recipe,but as I always said there are so many beginners in cooking .so,I'm posting this recipe specially for them. I often prepare these vada and serve with idly and Sambhar for breakfast and some times with chicken curry at the evenings. Eating vada with chicken curry is really tasty. You should definitely taste once in your life time.But in ramzan I frequently make vada for iftar along with so many dishes.

        Making vada at home is not a big deal. It is so simple and easy.you just follow my step by step pictures and try at your home. I'm going share lots of iftar recipes in my blog so, stay connected.

 I hope you like this recipe and give it a try.

  ingredients :

Minapappu/urad dal/white lentils : 250 grams
Finely chopped onion : 1 (medium)
chopped green chillies : 2
Chopped Curry leaves : 2 strings
Salt to taste
soda bicarbonate : 1/4 tea spoon
Jeera/cumin seeds : 1/2 tea spoon
Oil for deep frying

Method :

Soak  urad dal for 1 to 2 hours and wash it 2 to 3 Times

Now take soaked dal into blender add salt and soda bicarbonate and blend it coarsely (don't add water)

Now take coarsely blended batter into a bowl add all remaining ingredients and mix it well,if batter is too hard add 2 to 3 table spoons of water.

Now take any plastic cover and apply some water and wet your hands then put some portion of vada mix and make like vada shape as shown in pics

Now heat oil and deep fry vada on both sides till they changes into golden color.

Serve hot!!!!!

Soak dal

Add salt and soda to dal

Blend it coarsely

Add chopped onions

Add green chilli and curry leaves

Add jeera

Mix it well

Wet your hands

Take some portion make a round shape

Put small hole init

Drop them into hot oil

Fry on both sides

Fry till golden color

Take them into a plate

Serve hot!!!!