Dal Vada and Chutney

July 25, 2022
Posted by Oddy Uniwraps

About the Recipe

You will love the exciting crispness of these delectable dal vadas. Made with a coarse paste of soaked chana dal perked up with onions, ginger paste and the whole traditional team of flavour enhancers and deep fried, these dal vadas have a unique texture.

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Ingredients

Bengal gram - 1 cup (soaked overnight)
Ginger and garlic
Curry leaves
Cumin seeds
Soaked beaten rice - ½ cup
Onion
Green chillies and Coriander
Salt - 1 tsp
Spices- little lit of red chilly powder and garam masala - ½ tsp
Hing or asafoetida
For chutney- Peanuts - ½ cup, Small onion and some green chillies, two Tomatoes and some garlic pods and Mustard oil - ½ tsp

Directions

Pour the chana dal into a sieve and rinse under cold running water.
Transfer the dried-up dal to a grinder. Start adding - ginger, garlic, curry leaves and cumin seeds. Grind it into a coarse paste.
Add soaked beaten rice to the paste along with onion, green chillies and some coriander. Now add 1 tsp of salt and the spices. Mix it well.
Make vadas now. You can apply some oil to your hands while doing it. Fry vadas at low to medium flame.
For chutney, we will use the Oddy Ecobake Cooking Paper tray.
Line your air fryer basket with an Oddy Ecobake cooking paper tray and put all ingredients required for chutney. Let it cool down for a bit and then grind it in a mixer before adding salt and red chilly powder.
Add some salt to it and 1 tsp mustard oil. Mix it well and set the air fryer at 200 degrees Celsius and cook it for about 15 minutes.
For tadka, take some oil, curry leaves, black mustard and urad-chana dal. Now add this tadka to the chutney and mix it well.

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