Vada

Every festival will remind you of Vada, the quintessential south indian snack. Its heavenly when you have it with Masala chai and spicy chutney as side dish. I was introduced to this dish during my stay in coastal andhra, a place called Rajahmundry. Vada is called as ' Minapa garelu' in telugu. Be it any festival, you would find this dish as prasadam along with tamarind rice and lemon rice. Even I prepared this as prasadam for Ganesh chathurthi :-)



Ingredients:

Urad dal - 1 Cup
Green chillies - 3
Onion - 1 medium(finely chopped)
Ginger - 1 small piece
Salt - According to taste
Jeera - 1/2 Tbsp
Vegetable oil

Procedure:

1. Soak the urad dal for for overnight.
2. Drain all the water and grind urad dal along with green chillies, ginger, salt. Do not add anymore water to this mixture becoz we have soaked urad dal for overnight and also if more water is added the vada's will absorb more oil.
3. Add finely chopped onions, jeera to the batter.
4. Take a small amount of the dough and place it on plastic sheet & make a shape of vada and fry them in oil.
5. This goes very well with coconut chutney, ginger chutney or sambar.