Vada
Vada (Black gram fritters) is a doughnut shaped fritter made from black gram, which is crispy on the outside and fluffy on the inside. This is a very famous breakfast/snack in South India. It goes very well with sambar or coconut chutney
Ingredients
Method
- Soak the black gram in water for 3-6 hrs or overnight.
- Drain the water from black gram dal.
- Grind together dal, pepper, green chilli, ginger and salt with very little water just enough to grind.
- Beat the batter with hand in order to ferment it for 5-10 min. Mix the chopped onions and cumin seeds with this batter.
- Heat the oil for deep frying and maintain the heat in medium low.
- For every vada, dip your hand in water and immediately place sufficient batter in your palm and shape it into a doughnut and drop in the heated oil for deep frying.
- Keep making the doughnut shaped fritters until you exhaust the batter.
- When the vada has light brown color on the outside, it can be removed from the oil.
- It goes very well with coconut chutney.