Cuisine Style: Tamil Nadu, South India | Cooking Time: 15 minutes | To Serve: 4 | Type : Snacks | Take with: Tea, coffee, curd rice

Ingredients

• Urad dal – 1 cup
• Green chilli - 1 [finely chopped]
• Ginger – 1 tbsp [finely chopped]
• Coconut – 1 tbsp [thinly chopped]
• Curry leaves – 2 springs [finely chopped]
• Peppercorns – 5 [crushed]
• Rava – 1 tbsp
• Salt to taste
• Oil for deep frying

Preparation

• Soak urad dal for 3 hours. Then drain water & grind well or coarsely grind
• In a bowl add ground urad dal mixture, curry leaves, ginger, green chilli, coconut, salt, rava, & peppercorns mix well.
• Then shape vadai & put hole in the middle then deep fry till crisp & golden brown.
• Serve hot with chutney, sambar, curd rice or pongal.

Note

• You can make thayir vadai, sambar vadai also.
• Dont add too much water while grinding.
• You can add rice flour [1 tbsp] instead of rava
• For best crispy medhu vada sprinkle water & grind in wet grinder
• You can add finely chopped onion
• Use whole urad dal
• After grinding mix well the batter

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Grind soaked urad dal in stone mortar

Finely grind with less water. sprinkle water then grind to smooth batter

Add onion, ginger, green chilli, coconut, curry leaves & salt mix well

Make balls

Flatten & shape vada

Drop it in hot oil, deep fry till crisp

Flip over fry both sides

Now its ready, remove it from oil