March 19, 2020

Recipe for Dal Vada

Dav Vadas are a common Mumbai Street Food snack, especially found on the carts during evening. I started eating and enjoying Dal Vadas because they are one of my Husband’s favourite Tea-Time snacks and whenever we went rambling, we would pick up Vada Pao and Dal vada!

Here, in Dubai, we terribly miss our Mumbai Street Food,although we get these items at fancy restaurants, but nothing to beat Street Food!

Since it was Valentine’s week and I hadn’t planned anything this year for Valentine’s I decided to cook my Husband’s faves, each day! And Dal Vadas made it to Day 5!

This is a combination of various recipes put together.

Here’s my version of the recipe.

Course Evening Snack

Cuisine Indian

Keyword Dal Vada, Deep Fried Snack, Evening snack

Prep Time 30

Cook Time 20

Resting Time 8

Total Time 8 50

Ingredients

1 Cup Chana Dal
¼ Cup Urad Dal
10 Curry Leaves(chopped fine)
7-8 Sprigs of Coriander leaves (chopped fine)
2 Green Chillies
3 gms Ginger
1 Small Onion(chopped fine)
½ Tspn Cumin Seeds(Jeera)
¼ Cup Besan(gram flour)
½ Tspn Red Chilly Powder
1 Tspn Coriander Powder
1 Tspn Garam Masala Powder
1 Tspn Salt

Instructions

In around 2 cups of water, Soak the Chana Dal and Urad Dal together, over night.
Note:- Keep aside 2 tbspn Chana Dal and soak that separately
Next Morning, drain off all the water and wash the Chana Daland Urad Dal. Also, drain off all the water from the separately soaked Chana Dal,wash it and keep aside
Transfer both the Chana Dal and Urad Dal into a mixer jar and add the Ginger and Green Chilies to it and grind all these ingredients to a coarse paste
Note:- Do not add any water while grinding since the Dals are already soaked in water. Adding water while grinding will make it difficult to shape the vadas. You may find it difficult initially, but keep giving your mixer short burts and scrape off the sides of the jar and bring the ingredients together and rotate the mixer
Transfer it into the coarse paste into a bowl and add the separately soaked chana dal into the bowl.
Now to this paste, add the separately soaked Chala Dal, Salt, Garam Masala,Chilly Powder, Coriander Seed Powder, Chopped Onion, Chopped Coriander, Chopped Curry Leaves and Cumin Seeds
Mix all these ingredients well
In a Deep fry pan, Heat the Oil on Medium flame
Note: Ensure the flame is not high or else the outer covering of the vadas will fry quickly leaving the inside raw
Grease your palms with some oil, Divide the dough into equal parts and flatten each part on your palms, into discs not more that 2-3 inches in width and drop the flattened discs in to the hot oil and let it fry until they turn Golden brown in colour
Note: It may take some time to fry so do not be in a hurry or impatient to turn up the heat
Once it turns golden brown, remove them from the oil and drain off all the excess oil
Transfer them on to a kitchen paper napkin to drain off any extra oil
Your Dal Vadas are now ready to be attacked! Dal Vadas are best enjoyed when Hot with a nice Hot cup of Tea or Coffee!