Dahi Vada (Thayir Vada)

Ingredientsfor 8 servings

• 1 cup Black gram Urad dal
• 1 tbsp Ginger — chopped
• Salt, to taste
• 1/4 tsp Baking soda
• Oil — for frying
• 4 cup Thick curd
• 1 cup Sugar
• 2 tbsp Oil
• 1 tsp Mustard seeds
• 5 nos Whole red chillies
• 3 Springs Curry leaves

Preparation

1. Step 1

   Soak black gram for at least 2 hours.

2. Step 2

   Grind it into a thick fine paste by adding ginger, salt and required quantity of water. :- The batter should be thick so that we can easily make vada out of it.

3. Step 3

   Mix baking soda with the vada batter.

4. Step 4

   Heat the oil in a heavy bottom pan.

5. Step 5

   Roll out small lemon sized balls/vada out of the batter and fry in hot oil it in oil.

6. Step 6

   When vada goes golden brown, take it out of the oil and drain it on tissue paper.

7. Step 7

   Make sugar powder out of 1 cup sugar.

8. Step 8

   Beat the curd by adding powdered sugar.

9. Step 9

   Transfer this curd into a large serving dish and dip the fried vadas in it.

10. Step 10

    Heat 2 tbsp of oil in a pan and let the mustard seeds crackle.

11. Step 11

    Add curry leaves and when it becomes crispy.

12. Step 12

    Add whole red chillies and remove from fire.

13. Step 13

    Sprinkle this over dahi vada and keep it in the fridge (not in the freezer) for half an hour (so that the vada gets soaked in curd).

14. Step 14

    Dahi vada is ready to serve.