easy medu vada recipe | uddina vada recipe | urad dal vada recipe
Recipe Snapshot
- Prep time: 60 minutes
- Cook time: 30 minutes
- Total time: 90 minutes
- Yield: 12 -15 Servings
- Category: Breakfast
- Cuisine: south indian
Ingredients
- 1 cups of urad dal or uddina bele
- ¼ cup of channa dal or kadle bele
- 2 tsp of rice flour
- 2 green chillies
- 3 tbsp of dry chopped coconut
- few curry leaves
- 1 tbsp coriander leaves (chopped)
- 1 inch ginger (finely chopped))
- pinch of hing
- salt to taste
- oil to fry
Method
- wash and soak dal in about 3 cups of water for about 2-3 hours.
- drain all the water from soaked dal. grind urad dal and channa dal together to smooth paste using very little water. i have used authentic grinding stone, but wet grinder or even mixer grinder can be used.
- the batter should be thick and use very little water. the right consistency is very important or otherwise, you will not be able to get the vada shape.
- add coriander, green chilli, ginger and chopped dry coconut to the batter. mix it very well.
- add 2-3 tsp of rice flour. rice flour is added to make it crispy.
- add pinch of hing to make it more digestible.
- heat the oil in a frying pan in medium flame. wet your palms and take a lemon size batter.
- make hole in the center and slide it into the hot oil.
- the vada should float on top of oil.
- make sure your oil is not too hot. otherwise the vadas would not cook evenly.
- fry on both sides till it becomes golden brown in colour.
- serve medu vada immediately with chutney collections or sambar collections.
Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note
Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.