METHU VADAI

METHU VADAI

Ingredients:
1 cup whole urad dal soaked for an hour
½ inch ginger chopped finely
3 green chillies chopped
1 big onion chopped
Little coriander leaves chopped fine
1 tsp cumin seeds
Salt to taste
Oil for frying.

Method:

Drain the soaked urad dal and grind it to a fluffy consistency.
Sprinkle little water while grinding.
Add the salt last before removing from the grinder.
(the vadai will be hard if you add first)
Mix in all the chopped ingredients and cumin seeds.
Mix well.

Keep oil ready for deep frying.
Take a small lemon sized amount of batter and make
It into a vada shape. (A thick plastic paper can be used for this step)
Slip the vadai into the hot oil and fry till they turn to a golden brown colour. Remove and serve with coconut chutney.

How to grind the dhal for methu vadai:
Your grinder must be wet not dry.
I am sure you would have just washed before grinding.

Your urad dal will have little liquid in it after straining.
add about 6 tbs of water in the grinder.
add little urad dal and switch on the grinder.
keep adding little urad dal with little sprinkling of water,
every time. When you find the urad dal very very thick, sprinkle little water. This way you will not get watery dough.
The dough will be spongy.

Never add rice or flour to the dough. your vadai will be little hard.
Vadais made without flours will be very spongy to eat.
This is how I make.

If your dough is watery, there is no choice but to add little flour. I have no experince, you can try with urad dal flour.
Rice flour will make your vadai hard. Some say you get crisp vadai by adding rice flour. Sorry I have not tried.