Friday, May 1, 2015

Medu Vada/ Uddina Vade

Medu vada is a traditional South Indian recipe made from soaked and grinded skinned split black gram/ Urad dal.Medu vada and is usually accompanied along with idli,another most popular breakfast for South Indians.My family likes this a lot not only for breakfast sometimes for snacks too.
The consistency of the batter will come from what amount of water we add while grinding the soaked split black gram into batter.Water should be added very little by little,so as to make you easy to grind the urad dal.Adding too much water will make the batter watery and the vada won't get its proper shape,the vadas might also become soggy or soak up too much of oil.

Ingredients,

Urad dal/Skinned split black gram - 1 1/2  cups
Fresh coconut pieces - 1/2 cup
Black pepper - 1/2 teaspoon (crushed in a mortar and pestle,you can even skip this if you don't want to )
Curry leaves - 8-10 ( roughly torn)
Hing/ Asafoetida - a dash
Green chillies -3-4 (chopped in small pieces, if you want more spice add a few more green chillies)
Salt - According to taste ( about a teaspoon)
Oil - Enough to fry

Grind the split black gran into batter by adding little by little water.

Crush the black pepper in a mortar and pestle.Add it to the batter.One can even skip this I add this and fry the vadas only enough for my kids.The remaining are done with chopped green chilles.

Add the roughly torn curry leaves,salt,hing and chopped green chillies.Mix well.

Heat the oil to fry.

Wet your hands with water and take a spoon full of batter and make a hole in the center in yourleft hand.

Flip this on to your right hand and slowly slide in the heated oil to fry.Deep fry on both the sides.

Serve with  Coconut chutney/Sambar.


Crush the black pepper.


Add crushed black pepper,curry leaves,pieces of fresh coconut
and salt.


Mix in the green chillies.


Wet your both the palms with water and pour a spoon full of batter
into you left palm.Make a hole in the center.Fip this onto your
right palm and slowly slide this in hot oil to fry on both the sides.


Serve hot with Coconut chutney/sambar.









 


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