Masala Vada

It’s been a while I posted a recipe in my blog as I was busy with couple of things.  Today I am here with Masala Vada !!!

Masala Vada is a delicious crispy south indian snack which is my all time favourite. This is made using Chana dal,moong dal,  onion, green chillies, garlic, ginger, cloves.

Ingredients:

Chana Dal – 1 cup

Moong Dal – ½ cup

Onion – 1 no chopped

Green chillies – 4 no

Garlic – 1no

Ginger – 1 inch

Cloves – 2 no

Rice flour – 2 tsp

Salt  As Required

Curry leaves – 7-10 no

Jeera – 1 tsp

Corinder leaves  and mint leaves – 2 tbsps

Oil for frying

Preparation

• Soak Chana dal and Moong dal for 4 hours
• First grind jeera,cloves,ginger,garlic, green chillies coarsely.

• Later drain water from channa dal, moong dal and grind coarsely by leaving one or two dals can be whole.
• Now mix chopped onions,corinder,mint, salt, rice flour, curry leaves to above grinded coarsely mixture.
• Heat oil in a kadai
• Now take the above mixture of equal size balls and make uniform vadas.
• Deep fry vadas on medium flame  in oil until golden color, flipping once in between.
• Drain in paper towel
• Serve with coconut chutney