Medu Vadai / Ulundu Vadai

Toady I am going to post next important food in our wedding occasion, yesterday I posted a sweet, today its going to be a savory one. Its vadai, there are two type of vadai parru vadai which will be mainly served for lunch and other one is medu vadai will in breakfast or dinner.

Medu Vadai is made out of urad dhal which is to be grinded to smooth batter and deep fried in hot oil.

Ingredients:

Urad dhal	1 cup
Raw rice	1 ½ Tbsp
Onion finely chopped	¼ cup
Green chili	2
Ginger finely chopped	½ tsp
Black pepper	½ tsp
Curry leaves	few
Cilantro	few

 

Directions:

1. Wash the urad dhal and rice and soak in 2 cups of water for 2 hours.
2. Using a wet grinder or blender grind to smooth thick fluffy batter. Transfer it to another bowl, bet the batter in hand for couple times it will increase the fluffiness.
3. Add chopped onion, pepper, green chili, ginger, curry leaves and cilantro mix well.
4. Mean while heat oil for frying. Wet your left palm and right fingers take a big lemon size batter place this in left palm and flatten it lightly and make a hole in center.
5. Drop this in hot oil and deep fry until golden brown on both sides. Again wet the hand and repeat the same for rest of the batter.
6. Drain the excess oil and serve with sambar or coconut chutey.

 

Tips:

• Leave the urad dhal in refrigerator for soaking time. It helps to raise the batter while grinding. Don’t add too much water while grinding approximately ⅓ - ½ cup water, add little by little.
• Batter should be smooth and fine paste if you drop a little batter in a cup of water it should float immediately this is the right consistency.
• How to check oil? When you add a small part of batter in oil it should start to bubble immediately.
• For best result start to fry as soon as grinded, add salt and onion just before you deep fry.
• Adding raw rice makes the vadai crispier. Instead of raw rice you can also add rice flour. If your batter is little water add teaspoon rice flour.
• If using blender stop frequently and mix the batter.
• If you feel hard to use your hand for making shape wrap a plastic wrap on a flat bottomed bowl and wet that wrap and try or take small lemon size batter and drop in oil. But this is the traditional shape.

 

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