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Childhood memories are these hot vada and tea and rains! Added to Ajji or Grandmother admonishing us,” enough now! You will get a stomach-ache if you eat any more of these.” Why she made them as snack when it rained I don’t know...
Else it used to be traditional meal served on the
banana leaf when there were too many attractions to concentrate only on these
beauties. Either way we hardly ate any...
Coming to Dal or pulses that we eat ...
Dal is a dried pulse (lentil,
pea or various types of bean) which has been split.
Dal goes by various names
called bele in Kannada and pappu, paripu or paruppu in Telugu and Tamil, daal
in Marathi. Dal is a ready source of proteins for a balanced diet containing
little or no meat.
To make the dal usually the outer hull is
usually stripped off; dal that has not been hulled is described as chilka
(skin), e.g. chilka urad dal, mung dal chilka.
The variety of dal we have
are numerous we have chana dal, urid dal, toor dal, moong dal, masoor dal to
name a few common ones…
Masala Vada/ Chana Dal Vada/ Chattambade
Making time: 20 minutes (excluding
soaking time)
Makes: 15 vadas (approx.)
Ingredients:
- 1 cup yellow gram (chana) dal
- ½ cup coriander finely chopped
- 1 spring curry leaves
- 3-4 green chillies finely chopped
- Oil to deep fry
Method:
- Wash and soak dal for 3-4 hours.
- Keep 2 tbsp. dal aside, grind the rest, coarsely.
- Mix all other ingredients, including whole dal.
- Add 2-3 tbsp. hot oil to the mixture.
- Heat oil;
- Make small balls and flatten to with moist palm.
- Let carefully into the hot oil.
- Fry first one side then the other till golden brown.
- Serve hot with green chutney, tamarind chutney, or ketchup.
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Crisp looking vadas Archana my favorite snack..
ReplyDeleteOur favorite, i add a handful of almonds to the dal,to make it more crispy and crunchy!!!
ReplyDeleteThat's very interesting Priya ... Addition of almonds .. Let me try next time
DeleteVery well made vadas.Lovely
ReplyDeleteDelicious. Of course this is one of the childhood memories for all of us.
ReplyDeleteVadas look crispy and it is amazing how many of these vadas we can munch on, without even realizing.
ReplyDeleteThese are so popular as a afternoon snack. The associated memories make it even better.
ReplyDeleteThanks for reminding, haven't made these in ages. Look so good.
ReplyDeleteThese masala vadas are all time favorite...good that you made them..
ReplyDeletemy hubby's favorite vada..looks soo delicious...
ReplyDeleteRains and fried snacks are match made in heaven! Good one Archana...
ReplyDeleteChildhood memories are so precious :)) my grandmom used to make these in batches and keep one portion Away for me . When I was back from school , she used to specially re-fry these again and they used to be hot and heavenly ......
ReplyDeleteVery tempting crispy vadas, i can have them anytime.
ReplyDeletelovely snack
ReplyDeletesome episodes cannot be erased from our brains and especially the ones from childhood , that involes grandparents and food :) this is nice and simple recipe
ReplyDeleteLove eating masala vadai! Such a simple yet very flavorful recipe.
ReplyDeleteLove these chana dal vadas. My mom used to make them for parties.
ReplyDeleteLovely vadas. Welcome anytime.
ReplyDeleteCrunchy munchies
ReplyDeleteThey are perfectly fried very addicitve.
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