Methu vadai

ingredients

• Blackgram - 1/2 cup
• Green chillies - 2
• Salt - to taste
• Ginger - a bit
• Raw rice powder - 1 tsp.
• Onion - 1 (chopped)
• Curry and coriander leaves - cut into small pieces.

method of preparation

• Wash well and soak dhal for two hours.
• Grind it into a slightly coarsed dough with chillies, ginger and salt.
• Add chopped onion, curry and coriander leaves and miw well.
• Heat oil in a deep frying pan.
• Keep a little dough on a plantain leaf or plastic sheet.
• Flatten it out to a vada.
• Fry in oil. Turn the vadai over, and the oil in a drainer and serve.
• Fry 4 to 5 vadas at a time.
• Serve hot with coconut chutney.

masala vadai / paruppu vadai

INGREDIENTS

• Bengalgram dhal - 1 cup
• Green chillies - 2
• Onion - 2
• Salt - 1 1/2 tsp.
• Garlic - 3 cloves
• Ginger - a small bit
• Sombu - 1/2 tsp.
• Cinnamon - 1 stick

METHOD OF PREPARATION

• Soak dhal for an hour.
• Grind together with green chillies, salt, ginger, garlic, cinnamon, 1 onion,sombu to a coarse paste without adding water.
• Chop or grate other onion and add. Mix well.
• Add chopped 2 tsp. of curry and coriander leaves.
• Flatten into small vadais and deep fry until a reddish brown.
• Drain out oil and serve hot.

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