Channa Vada

It has been two weeks that I wrote something on the blog, I am sorry for the same. But thanks for waiting patiently.  I have been very busy setting up the production of healthy tea cakes and coupled with mothers day it just got crazy.

This time I am sharing a simple recipe of making south indian channa or masala vada. This suggestion was given by a friend who had come down to enjoy my South indian spread  at our place. I was rattling off the recipe to her and she said please write in your blog so that we can refer at any point of time. So here goes –

Ingredients

• 1 cup Channa Dal
• ½ cup finely chopped onion
• ¼ Coriander leaves finely chopped
• 1-2 green chilies chopped
• 1 tbsp ginger grated
• 10 black peppers
• 2 slices of bread optional- grind them in mixie
• 1 tbsp of cornflour if batter becomes too thin
• Salt to taste
• Oil for frying

Method

• Soak Channa Dal for 4-5 hours
• Coarsely Grind it in mixie without water
• To this add onion, coriander leaves, Chilies, ginger, black peppers. Bread and cornflour to make it dry mixture.
• Mix properly and make flat balls
• Deep Fry them in oil
• Serve them hot with coconut chutney

You can avoid green chilies if making for kids , even can add boiled vegetables to the same . Pl add cornflour to the same so that they do not break due to water in vegetables. The result is always yummy.