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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
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Prep Time 3 hours 20 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Resting Time 4 hours
Total Time 3 hours 50 minutes
Servings: 20 people
Cuisine: ASIA, Indian
Calories: 1234
Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

  • 2 cups Black gram dal Soaked for 3-6 hrs in water
  • ½ tsp Pepper powder
  • 3 Green chillies
  • 2 " Ginger
  • 1 Onion Chopped finely
  • Required amount of water
  • Salt to taste
  • Oil for deep frying
  • 2 tsp Cumin seeds

Method
 

  1. Soak the black gram in water for 3-6 hrs or overnight.
  2. Drain the water from black gram dal.
  3. Grind together dal, pepper, green chilli, ginger and salt with very little water just enough to grind.
  4. Beat the batter with hand in order to ferment it for 5-10 min. Mix the chopped onions and cumin seeds with this batter.
  5. Heat the oil for deep frying and maintain the heat in medium low.
  6. 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.
  7. Keep making the doughnut shaped fritters until you exhaust the batter.
  8. When the vada has light brown color on the outside, it can be removed from the oil.
  9. It goes very well with coconut chutney.