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.
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 separatelyNext 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 pasteNote:- 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 flameNote: 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 colourNote: 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!
