Chana Dal vada
Chana Dal vada

Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, chana dal vada. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Chana Dal vada is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Chana Dal vada is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have chana dal vada using 13 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Chana Dal vada:
  1. Prepare 1 cup chana dal or bengal gram
  2. Prepare as needed salt
  3. Get 1 inch cinnamon or dalchini
  4. Prepare 1-2 red chilli
  5. Get 3/4 teaspoon jeera or cumin
  6. Take 3/4 teaspoon saunf or fennel seeds
  7. Make ready 1 onion chopped (medium sized)
  8. Make ready Handful pudina or mint
  9. Take 10-12 curry leaves chopped
  10. Make ready 1 1/4 teaspoon ginger garlic paste
  11. Make ready 1-2 green chilies chopped
  12. Make ready 1 pinch Turmeric or haldi
  13. Get As required oil for deep frying
Steps to make Chana Dal vada:
  1. Add chana dal to a bowl and wash it with lot of water a few times. Soak it in good amount of water for 1½ hours.
  2. Drain completely to a colander. Powder cinnamon, red chilli, jeera and saunf coarsely in a blender jar. Set this aside along with 2 tbsp soaked chana dal.
  3. Add the drained chana dal & salt to the same blender jar.Pulse it a few times until it turns to a coarse mixture.The dough must have some uncrushed chana dal. Transfer to a bowl.
  4. Next add finely chopped mint, curry leaves, onion, masala powder we just made above.Also add green chilies and ginger garlic paste. Mix everything well. Taste and add more salt if needed. Take a handful of the dough & check if it binds well.
  5. To check make a ball & then flatten it to a masala vada. The mixture must have a good binding to shape them to vadas. - Remove this to your fingers & check if the masala vada is binding well. If the mixture doesn't bind well, then take a handful of this mixture and blend to a smooth paste.
  6. Mix that with the rest of the dough. How to make masala vada Heat oil in a deep pan on a medium flame. Divide the dough to 10 parts. Make small balls and flatten them on your palm.
  7. You can also make these on a greased plastic sheet or dry cloth.Check if the oil is hot enough by gently dropping a small portion to the oil.The dough must rise without browning quickly. Slide masala vada one by one gently to the hot oil.
  8. You can add about 3 to 4 vedas in each batch.do not disturb them immediately otherwise they will break.
  9. On a medium flame deep fry the masala vadas until golden & crisp on both the sides.Transfer the masala vadai to a kitchen tissue.
  10. Fry the rest of them in batches following the same procedure.
  11. Serve masala vada hot with chutney or ketchup.

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