Another popular tea time snack of South India, . The doughnut shaped Uzhunnu vada (ഉഴുന്നു വട- மேடு வடை) is perfect delight with coconut chutney. Also commonly served as an accompaniment with idli, for breakfast. Its prepared with fine pasted urud dal (lentle) mixed with a few spices, fried in oil. Shaping the Vada is a tricky part of the process, and may have some difficulty initially. I too had trouble initially to get the doughnut shape, but don’t worry, you will get there with couple of tries (as I did).
Ingredients
- Lentle OR Urud Dal (ഉഴുന്നു) : 1 cup
- Rice flour : 1 Tbl sp
- Green chillies chopped : 3
- Curry leaves. : 2 strigs
- Onion chopped : ¼
- Salt to taste
- Oil for frying
Method
- Soak the Dal for 2 to 2 1/2 hours
- Grind the dal in a very smooth paste in a Mixie, grinder or food processor.
While grinding put very small quantity at a time if the mixie appears overloaded due to lack of enough water, sprinkle a few drops of water (only)
- Mix the ingredients 2 to 6 to the Dal very well.
- Keep a deep bottom pan on the stove
- Pour the enough oil for frying
- Once the oil is hot enough you can start shaping the Vada
- Wet your hands, take the ground mixture in a lemon size and make a circle shape. In the center put a hole with the finger, and do a final touchup to make the shape perfect
- Slowly drop the Vada in the oil and flip it in between (number of Vadas at a time depending on the size of the pan. Give a small gap in between while putting Vadas, to make sure they won’t stick together in oil)
- Once the Vada is fried to golden color, move it to a tissue paper or perforated pan to drain the extra oil.
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