ANJINEYAR VADA MAALAI

ANJINEYAR VADA MAALAI

Ingredients:

1 cup of whole black urad dal, soaked for 20 minutes.
1 tsp cumin seeds
1 tsp black pepper corns
Salt to taste
1 tbs rice flour

Method:
Drain the black urad dal, add in the cumin seeds,
black pepper corns, and salt to the soaked dal.
Leave this mixture for about 15 minutes.

Now grind the urad dal mixture without adding water.
The paste will be a little coarse. Add in the rice flour.
Mix nicely.

Now heat the oil in a wok.
Take a plastic sheet and oil it a little.
Now take a small ball of the batter.
Now flatten the batter, slowly with your fingers.
The vadai should be quite thin. Make a hole in the middle.

Keep the flame very low, slip the vadais into the oil.
Keep flipping the vadais till it gets a brown colour.
It takes time to cook, since the flame is low.
Only then you will get crispy vadais.

Remove and put it on a paper towel.
Take a string and make the vadais into a maalai.
Your vada maalai is ready for neivedhiyam.


The whole black urad dal is ground without removing the skin.



Thanks to the net for the picture.