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

SOYA KHEEMA BALLS RECIPE/SOYA CHUNKS PAKODA RECIPE

Climate is very cool here in nellore after so many months. Also it's raining here from 3 days. Yes, it's a rainy season for us now and I'm enjoying these rainy days a lot. Because November,December and January are my favorite months.  because it's winter time. So, I wanted to make some new and hot dishes for my kids to enjoy these rainy days. I can have only one piece because of my diet.

          I prepared these tasty soya kheema balls couple of days back and tasted so good.I fried them in two ways like pakoda and balls. Both ways tasted yum. So I named them as pakoda and balls. Ingredients also so simple and easily available. I hope you will give this a try and let me know how they turned.

Servings : 2 to 3 persons

My 1 cup measures 200ml

Ingredients :

Soya chunks : 1 cup

Gram flour/Besan : 1/4 cup

Rice flour : 1/4 cup

Medium chopped onion : 1

Chopped Chopped leaves : 2 table spoons

Chopped curry leaves : 2 strings

Coriander powder : 1 tea spoon

Chilly powder : 1 tea spoon

Salt to taste

Ginger garlic paste : 1 tea spoon

Garam masala powder : 1/2 tea spoon

Oil for deep frying

Method :

First cook soya chunks as shown Here.

Now take them into a blender and blend it coarsely without adding water.

Now take soya kheema is ready. Take it into a bowl and add all ingredients and mix it well.

Now roll them into small balls and drop them into hot oil and fry until they changes into golden and serve.

Pictorial :

Cook soya chunks as shown here

Take them into a blender

Blend it coarsely

Take this soya kheema into a bowl,add gram flour

Add rice flour

Add chilly,coriander and Garam masala powders

Add ginger garlic paste

Add coriander and curry leaves

Add onions

Mix it well

And just drop in hot oil as pakoda

Fry until they changes into golden color

Or roll them into balls

Drop them in hot oil

Fry until they changes into golden color

Take into a plate

Serve hot.

JEERA BISCUITS RECIPES/CUMIN SEEDS COOKIES RECIPE

These jeera biscuits are so tasty and very easy to make. They are filled with aromatic jeera flavour with buttery taste. I baked these biscuits yesterday and served with a glass of milk to my daughters. They really liked them a lot. You know? Now there are only 4 biscuits left in my cookie jar. When you take a bite they just melt in mouth. These biscuits tastes sweet and salty. I hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turned out for you.

Makes : 20 small biscuits

Ingredients :

All purpose flour/maida : 1 cup

Butter : 1/2 cup or 75 grams

Icing sugar /powdered Sugar : 1/4 cup

Salt : 1/2 tea spoon

Baking powder : 1 pinch

Jeera/cumin seeds : 1 table spoon

Milk : 2 table spoons or as needed

Method :

Take butter and sugar in a bowl and beat it well.

Now add all other ingredients and mix it well,then add milk little by little and form a dough.don't knead the dough,just combine all ingredients together.

Now cover the dough with cling wrap and refrigerate for 20 minutes.

Now dust some flour on clean surface and roll the dough into 1/4 inch height with rolling pin.

Now cut them into round shape with the help of cookie cutter or any lid.

Arrange them in lined baking tray.

Now preheat oven in 180 degrees Celsius and bake for 15 to 18 minutes in 180 degrees Celsius.

When baked, let them cool completely and serve. 

Note : when biscuits are hot they will be hot. Once they will cool down,they turns crispy.

Pictorial :

Take butter and sugar in a bowl

Beat it well

Add flour

Add salt and baking powder

Add jeera

Mix it well with your finger tips

Now add milk little by little

Form a dough

Place it in a cling wrap

Cover it tightly and refrigerate for 20 minutes

Now dust some flour on clean surface

Roll it

Cut into round shape with cookie cutter

Arrange them in baking tray

Bake them

Enjoy!!!!