MY ELEVENTH RECIPE

This is my eleventh recipe. This is a very famous snack recipe in south india especially tamilnadu. This can be easily prepared by any one especially those who are beginners in cooking recipe they can try this in easy way and it comes good. And the recipe is paruppu vadai or masala vadai. it is good snack during rainy weather at evening.

come lets move to the recipe.

PARUPPU VADAI or MASALA VADAI

before go into the recipe lets see the ingredients.

INGREDIENTS

GRAM DAL - 1 CUP

ONION - 1 MEDIUM SIZE

GINGER & GARLIC PASTE - 1 TEASPOON

GREEN CHILLIES - 2 NO

CINNAMON - 1 INCH STICH

CLOVES - 4

FENNEL SEEDS - 1 TABLESPOON

SALT - AS REQUIRED

OIL - AS REQUIRED for frying

ASAFOETIDA - 1 PINCH

CURRY LEAVES - 1 SPRIG

CORIANDER LEAVES - 2 TABLESPOON chopped

PROCEDURE

soak the gram dal for two hours.

chop the onions.

after the  dal is soaked add it to a mixie, then add ginger garlic paste, fennel seeds, cinnamon stick, cloves and salt. without adding water grind it into a coarse paste.

transfer it to a bowl. then add chopped onions, chopped green chillies, curry leaves, fennel seeds, coriander leaves and asafoetida. mix it well.

then take a kadai, add oil for frying and heat the oil

then make small lemon sized ball of the dal mixture and flatten the ball with palm, put it in the oil.

fry it in high flame till the vadai turns to golden brown.

take the vadais and put it on the tissue paper, it absorbs the excess oil.

now the vadai is ready to serve and serve the hot vadai with coconut chutney.