South Indian Medu Vada Breakfast Recipe

Medu Vada is a traditional, famous and common South Indian recipe item. You can have it as breakfast, may be as main course or as a side dishes. It can be prepared easily and qiuckly and serve it with sauce, samber and coconut chutneys. 

SOUTH INDIAN MEDU VADA

Servings: 15 pieces of vadas

Ingredients:

Split Black Gram (Urad daal) – 1 cup
Water – ½ cup

Salt – as per taste
Ginger – 1 tbsp, finely chopped
Green Chilies – 6 to 7, finely chopped
Black Pepper powder – 1 tbsp

Asafoetida – pinch

Cumin seeds - 1 tbsp

Curry Leaves – 12 to 15 leaves, choppes

Coriander leaves – 2 tbsp, chopped
Oil – for deep frying

Preparation:

Soak urad dal for minimum of 5 hours.

Drain water and grind dal in a blender using very little water to make the batter.

Pour the batter into a bowl. The batter needs to be whipped well to make the vadas light and as well as fluffy. To know whether it is properly done or not, put a little portion of the batter in water. If it floats well on the water, it means your batter is ready.

Add salt, cumin seeds, chopped ginger, chopped green chilies, black pepper powder, chopped curry leaves, chopped coriander leaves and asafetida and mix them all together.

Heat Oil on medium heat.

Apply water on your palm and take a portion of dal paste or batter and make a small hole in middle by using your thumb and place it gently into the hot oil.

Follow the same process for all the batter.

Deep fry the Vadas to get medium golden brown on both sides.

Remove the vadas from the oil and put them on paper towels, as extra gets soaked.

Serve hot with chutney, sambar or sauce.