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MASALA VADA RECIPE

Oct-27-2015
Fareeha Ahmed
0 minutes
Prep Time
20 minutes
Cook Time
4 People
Serves
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Recipe Tags

  • Everyday
  • Indian
  • Frying
  • Snacks

Ingredients Serving: 4

  1. 2 cup bengal gram/chana dal
  2. 2 whole red chili
  3. 1 tsp black pepper
  4. 2 tsp cumin seeds
  5. 1/2 inch stick cinnamon
  6. 2 large onions finely sliced
  7. 1 tsp turmeric powder
  8. 2 green chili finely chopped
  9. 4 tbsp coriander leaves/cilantro finely chopped
  10. handful of curry leaves/kadi patta finely chopped
  11. salt to taste
  12. oil for frying

Instructions

  1. Soak chana dal/bengal gram in water for about 4 hours or overnight.
  2. Grind red chili, pepper, cumin seed and cinnamon to a fine powder in a coffee grinder. Now add the chana dal in a food processor and grind to a coarse paste without adding water.
  3. Add the ground powder, sliced onion,turmeric powder, chopped green chili, chopped coriander leaves, chopped curry leaves and salt and mix really well.
  4. Heat oil in a kadai on medium flame and make a disk from the dal by making a ball and pressing firmly between your palms.
  5. Drop this in the hot oil one by one and fry until golden brown on both sides. Your masala vada is ready to be served.

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Taruna Bhatia
Sep-14-2017
Taruna Bhatia   Sep-14-2017

Goes very well with green raw tomato chutney

Geeta Kurien
Jul-09-2016
Geeta Kurien   Jul-09-2016

We have it as snacks for tea or mid morning either with ripe banana or coconut chutney.

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