Masala Vada – Spicy Lentil Dumplings
I was wondering what to cook on saturday because I felt like eating some spicy snack with hot tea. I soaked some chana dal to make some urundai kozhambhu but suddenly I remebered this uber-popular South Indian that goes great with tea – Masala vada.
Masala vadai is a staple food in all breakfast menu as well in a lot of festival platters. It is even more popular as street food and is usually available in any street corner tea shop.
Having Masala vada with hot tea on a rainy day is pure bliss.
Ingredients:
- Oil : 2 cups ( for deep fry)
- Chana dal/Black gram dal : 11/2 cup
- Dry red chilies : 7-8 (according to your spice level)
- Urda dal : 1 tbsp
- Cumin seeds : 2 tsp
- Garlic : 3-4
- Onion : 1 1/2 cups (Finely chopped)
- Mint Leaves : 4 tbsp(Finely chopped)
- Curry Leaves : 5-6 ( chopped)
- Coriander leaves : 2 tbsp (Finely chopped)
- salt : to taste
Method Of Preparation :
- Soak chana dal, urad dal, red chilies for 2-3 hrs (soak urad dal separately).
- After that drain the dals and take 2 tbsp of soaked chana dal separately.
- Now grind the remaining mixture (chana dal, urad dal, red chilies, garlic, cumin seeds ) together.
- When you grind them make sure it’s coarse paste not smooth ( you should see some broken chana dal in the paste).
- Now mix it with whole chana dal ( that you put aside), chopped onion, mint leaves, coriander leaves , curry leaves and salt.
- Make small patties out of the mixture.
- And deep fry them ( make sure it’s not turning dark brown) .
- Serve it hot with masala tea. 🙂
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Masala vada looks amazing, wonderful breakfast or tea-time snack..
Awesome vadas..love them at any time..so crisp and yumm
hey this looks so delicious..totally scrumptious..
looks awesome!
Just Wow!! I am making these for snack this evening! So tempting!
So tempting masal vadas!!
Shirya,
masala vadas looks really good and perfect.
wow thats a very beautiful click shriya,very tempting and done it to perfection…
Wow…these look very delicious…full of wholesome goodness! I like it. Thanks for sharing.
Hi, thanks for stopping by my blog and the nice comment. The masala vadas looks very crispy and tasty. Lovely clicks 🙂
WOW I love these lentil patties…just finger-lickingly delicious!
oh my,those look AMAZING!
perfect snack for weekends to have with tea
masala vadas looks really good
Thank you guys for the sweet comments !
I had vadas for the first time last week when I dined at an Indian restaurant here with a fellow blogger who was visiting and they were pretty good. I’ve bookmarked your recipe to try. Yours looks much more attractive 🙂
I have a favour to ask of you…..
No matter how many times I try, my tea always comes out bad. I do not know how to make a good cup of indian style tea. Please post regular tea, and masala tea recipe including brand of tea you like. How much tea, milk water per cup. I do not know where i am going wrong.Please do not skip the basics as my cuppa is really suffering. All these fried snacks are awesome but without a good cup of tea is such a let down. Please help me!!!Puuulleeezzze!
Hi Leena, I usually bought tea powder(Red label Tea powder) from Indian Store. boil 11/2 tbsp of tea powder with 2 cups of milk, 1/4 tsp of crushed ginger and 2 crushed cardamom. Bring to boil. Let it sit in medium heat for 10 minutes until you get the dark color. Now filter the tea add some sugar. This is how I make tea and it tastes really good. Try it and lemme know.
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wooooow nice masala vada