Chana Dal Vada Recipe - A crisp & mildly spice dumplings made from bengal gram or chana dal.
Ingredients
Bengal gram (Chana dal): 1 cup
Ginger: 1/2 inch piece
Mint leaves (Phudina): 8 leaves, chopped
Fennel seeds (Saunf): 1 tbsp
Coriander leaves (Dhaniya): 1 tbsp, chopped
Onion: 1/2 cup, chopped
Curry leaves (Kadi patta): 10 leaves
Samolina (Rava / Suji): 1 1/2 tbsp
Green chili: 1 piece
Garlic: 3 cloves
Salt: 1 tsp or to taste
Oil: 3 cup, for frying
Instructions
Soak the bengal gram or chana dal in water for about 2 hours or until softens.
Peel off the outer skin of onion and chop it finely.
Now to prepare dal vada mixture take a food processor or mixture jar and add soaked chana dal, curry leaves, fennel seeds, ginger, garlic, green chilies and coarsely ground all ingredients.
In a mixing bowl take vada mixture and add mint leaves, coriander leaves, onion, samoilina (suji / rava) and salt to taste.
Combine well all the ingredients. Check the seasoning and if required add little salt and mix again.
Now take a portion of vada mixture in hand and shape it into flat disc or around 2 to 3 inch diameter.
Repeat above step and make round vada from remaining dal vada mixture.
Now to deep fry dal vada heat 3 cups of oil in a frying pan / kadhai.
Once the oil is hot enough for frying one by one add dal vada.
Fry on both sides on medium flame till dal vada becomes golden brown in color.
Remove the vadas on absorbent paper / kitchen towel and let excess oil get soaked.