Chana Dal Vada

 Chana Dal Vada is a very popular South Indian recipe. Learn how to make\prepare Chana Dal Vada by following this easy recipe. 

Ingredients:

• 300 gms (10.5 oz) Chana Dal (Yellow Dal)
• 20 nos Green Chilies (finely chopped)
• 3 Onions medium sized (finely chopped)
• 1 1\2 tsp Ginger Garlic Paste
• 3 tbsp Coriander Leaves (finely chopped)
• 1 1\2 tsp Cumin Seeds (Jeera)
• 2 tsp Red Chili Powder
• Oil for deep frying
• Slt to taste
   
How to make Chana Dal Vada:

• Marinate the chana dal in water for about 2-3 hours.
• Grate the green chilies to a smooth paste.
• Grind the dal without adding water.
• Mix them into green chilies, onions, ginger-garlic paste, coriander leaves, cumin seeds, red chili powder and add salt to it.
• Take a part of the dal on the palm of your hand, and flatten them to make a vada.
• Deep fry the vada in a medium flame in hot oil.
 
Suggestions: Serve hot with green chutney.

Batata Vada

Batata Vada is a Maharashtrian dish in which besan is used to dip potato. Learn how to prepare Batata Vada by following this easy recipe.

Ingredients:
• 2 Cups besan 
• 3/4 lb Potatoes 
• 2 tbsp Grated coconut 
• 4 Onions, chopped finely 
• 4 Green chillies 
• 4 Cloves garlic 
• Sugar to taste 
• Juice of one lime 
• A few sprigs coriander leaves, chopped 
• 1 tsp Mustard seeds 
• A small piece ginger 
• 1 tsp Turmeric powder 
• 1/2 tsp Red chilli powder 
• 1 tsp Cumin seeds 
• A pinch of baking soda 
• Oil for deep frying 
• Water as required 
• Salt to taste

How to make Batata Vada:
• Cook potatoes into the Pressure cooker until soft.
• Peel and mash them, keep aside.
• Grind green chillies, garlic and ginger together to make a fine paste.
• Combine this paste, potato, onions, coriander leaves, sugar, lime juice and salt, mix well.
• Take a pan and heat a little oil and fry mustard seeds and curry leaves until the mustard crackles.
• Remove it from the heat and add it to the potato mixture.
• Take another bowl and combine besan, salt, cumin seeds, red chilli powder, baking soda, coconut, turmeric powder and little water in it, to make a thick batter.
• Add a tsp of hot oil to the batter.
• Make small balls from the potato mixture.
• Dip each ball in the batter and deep fry until golden brown.
• Serve hot batata vada with chutney or tomato sauce.

Aloo Vada

Aloo Vada is a very popular recipe. Learn how to make/prepare Aloo Vada by following this easy recipe.

Ingredients:


• 2 cups Potatoes (mashed)

• 2 Onions (chopped)

• 1 tsp Green Chillies (chopped)

• 1 tsp Ginger (adrak) (paste)

• 1 tsp Garlic (lehsun) (paste)

• 1 tsp Mustard Seeds (rai/sarson)

• 1 pinch of Asafetida (Hing)

• 1½ tsp Turmeric Powder (Haldi)

• Oil for deep frying

• Salt to taste

• Ingredients for Batter

• 1 cup Besan (Bengal Gram Flour)

• 1 tsp Turmeric powder (Haldi)


How to make Aloo Vada:

• Mix all ingredients (besan and turmeric powder) of batter to form a dip thick enough to thickly coat back of a spoon. Keep aside.

• Heat 2 tablespoons of oil in a frying pan. Add asafetida, mustard seeds, green chillies and onions.

• Saute for a couple of minutes till onions turn golden color.

• Add ginger paste, garlic paste, turmeric and salt and saute for a few more minutes; then add the mashed potatoes and cook it for 2 minutes.

• Allow the potato mixture cool down and divide the mixture into 8 portions, shape into round balls and keep aside.

• Heat oil in a frying pan.

• Coat each of the potato balls in the gram flour batter and gradually let it into the oil.

• Deep fry the potato balls until golden brown in color.

• Drain on absorbent paper.


Suggestions:

Serve it hot with tea

Vada

Ingredients:

• 4 Cups urad dal
• 3 Onions
• 10 Green chillies
• Small piece of ginger
• Few curry leaves
• Salt to taste
• Oil for deep-frying

How to make Vada:

• Soak four cups urad dal in water for about six hours.
• Make smooth batter by grinding it with ginger. Use minimum amount of water.
• Chop onion and green chillies into small pieces and add to the batter.
• Fold in curry leaves. Add salt to taste.
• Take a small portion of batter and make it flat by pressing with your palms.
• Deep-fry in oil till golden brown.
• Repeat the procedure for the remaining batter.
• Serve with coconut chutney.

Dal Vada

Ingredients:

• ½ big Onion (chopped finely)
• 1 cup Chana Dal (soaked in water for 3-4 hrs)
• 3-4 Curry Leaves (chopped finely)
• 2 Green Chilies (low spiced)
• Oil for deep frying
• Salt as per taste
• ½ tbsp Grated Coconut (fresh/frozen)
• Pinch of Asafetida (Hing)
• ½ tsp Red Chili Powder
• 1 tbsp Rice Flour

How to make Dal Vada:

• Pulse the green chilies in a blender till they are coarsely grounded.
• Drain out water from the soaked dal and pulse it a couple of times. The dal should not become a paste it should be just coarsely ground.
• Mix all ingredients except oil.
• Take a heavy bottomed pan and heat oil in it. Alongside take small dumplings out of dal mixture and flatten them in between your palms.
• Drop these dumplings or Vada into the oil and depp fry them. Make sure the heat is between low-medium, because if the heat is high the outer portion cooks faster than the inner one giving you a semi-cooked or burnet Vada.
• Once done remove the Vada from oil and drain it on a paper towel.
• Serve it hot with coconut chutney.

Milk Vada

Ingredients:

• 4 cup Raw Rice
• 1 litre Milk
• 3 cup Urad Dal
• Oil or ghee
• Cardamom Powder
• Salt and sugar to taste

How to make Milk Vada:

• Wash and soak urad dal and rice in water for overnight.
• Make paste of soaked contents in a blender, add salt. Make it like a batter.
• Meanwhile heat sufficient oil in a pan and pour 1 tbsap of the batter in it.
• Deep fry in oil till golden brown.
• Remove the vada and squeeze out excess oil.
• Boil the milk and add cardamom powder and sugar to it.
• Soak the vadas in milk.
• Milk Vada is ready to serve.

Banana Vada

Ingredients:

• 2 cups Gram Dal/ Channa Dal
• 2 Raw Bananas
• 2 Green Chilli (chopped)
• 1 tbsp Coriander Leaves (chopped)
• A few Mint Leaves
• 1-1/2 tsp Ginger-Garlic Paste
• 1 Onion (chopped)
• 1 tsp Garam Masala
• 1 tsp Salt
• Oil for deep fry

How to make Banana Vada:

• Soak the gram dal in enough water for two hours.
• Boil the raw bananas in a pressure cooker and peel them.
• Smash the boil bananas.
• Meanwhile drain the water and grind the dal into a coarse paste.
• Make dough by mixing mashed bananas, coarsely grounded dal and all other remaining ingredients.
• Make small balls of dough and pat on a plastic sheet into circular shapes.
• Heat oil in a frying pan and fry them until brown and serve hot with any sauce.

Medu Vada

Ingredients:

• 2 Cups raw rice
• 2 1/2 Cups urad dal
• 1 Large onion chopped
• 4 Green chilies
• Salt to taste
• 2 Cups oil

How to make Medu Vada:

• Put dal and rice in water and leave it for 5 hrs.
• Drain it and grind it to make a paste.
• Now add chopped onion, green chilies and salt and make it like a batter.
• Heat the oil in pan.
• Take small portions of the batter in ball like shape and deep fry it.
• Fry it till it turns golden brown.
• Medu Vada is ready