Parippuvada (പരിപ്പു വട) , I would say, is the most popular tea time snack of Kerala. It’s a crispy and medium-spice snack made out of coarse ground Channa Dal (കടല പരിപ്പ് ) added with a few spices,  & fried -traditionally- in coconut oil.

Ingredients

1. Channa Dal (കടല പരിപ്പ് )        : 1 cup
2. Dry Red Chilli      : 3 or 4
3. Turmeric powder              : ¼ T sp.
4. Asafetida             : 1 pinch
5. Curry leaves        : A few
6. Garlic with skin   :  4 to 5 clove
7. Onion chopped  : ¼
8. Rice Flour            : 1 Tbl Sp.
9. Oil – for frying
10. Salt to taste

Method

• Soak the channa dal along with chilli for 3 hours
• Keep aside 2 Table spoon channa daal  ( for adding towards the final mix)
• Drain the water completely and make a coarse mix of the rest of the daal and chilli along with turmeric powder (see picture-1)

Make sure not to grind too much, only need to be crushed

• Crush the garlic and mix this with all ingredients (except oil), along with the reserved whole socked dal to the dal mix.
• With wet hand, make lemon size balls of the mix.
• Press each balls  with the palms to get to the shape of a disc ( as in  picture)
• Heat oil in a deep pan, once the oil is hot to near boil, add the vada (3-10   vadas at a time depending on the pan size)
• Fry the vada on medium heat, flipping the vada in between, till it becomes crispy and golden brown in color.
• Drain the oil and move the cooked ‘Vada’s to a paper / paper towel.
• Serve hot along with Tea