Category: Appetizers & Snacks, Breakfast, Vegetarian Recipes
Cuisine: Indian, South Indian
Yields:
6 Servings
Difficulty: Difficult
Prep Time: 6 Hr
Cook Time:
30 Mins
Total Time:
6 Hr 30 Mins
Medu vada is a very popular South Indian snack recipe. It is a savoury, deep fried snack in the shape of doughnuts and is also commonly known as vadai, wada or vade. The dish is served for breakfast in most of the southern cities of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. You can serve this dish with sambar and a coconut chutney on the side. You can also serve this along with idlis. The vadas are shaped pretty much like doughnuts but that it is where the similarity ends. Unlike doughnuts, this is a savoury dish.
Ingredients
Instructions
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Soak urad dal in water for around 5 to 6 hours.
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Drain the water and grind the lentils in a food processor using very little water to a fine paste. Take this out in a large bowl and keep aside.
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Finely chop onions, ginger, green chillies and cilantro leaves.
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Mix all these to the prepared paste until everything is blended well.
- Heat some oil in a wok or deep fryer and keep a small bowl of water ready.
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Take a golf ball sized amount of the batter in your hands and make a hole in the center (like a doughnut shape) and gently put the vada into the oil for frying. Make sure to put in only a few vadas at a time and not to crowd the wok so that all of the vadas cook evenly.
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Fry the vada on both sides until golden brown on medium heat.
- Remove vadas with a slotted spoon on to a platter lined with paper towels. Serve them warm with either sambhar and chutney or plain ketchup.