Medu Vada / Urad Dhal Vada / Ulundha Vadai/ Ulundhu Vada

Medu Vada / Urad Dhal Vada / Ulundha Vadai/ Ulundhu Vada:

    Medu Vada is a snack variety even though it is deep fried in oil it is a healthy snack for kids and also for all age groups. Eating of this vada for one day will not do anything even it is a fried snack.
There is no trick of making this vada it is very easy to prepare the only thing is that grinding of Vada batter, because the consistency of the batter should be very thick for making vada. Here i want to thank my sweet 5 year kid (my lovable son) for helping me to take photos he took the photos of greasing my palms with water and making vada shape in hand .Now let us see how to prepare medu vada.

Ingredients:

1. Urad Dhal - 1 cup
2. Onion - 2 (finely chopped)
3. Green Chillies - 2 (finely chopped)
4. Ginger - 1 tsp (finely chopped)
5. Curry leaves - few (finely chopped)
6. Coriander leaves - few (finely chopped)
7. Pepper powder - 1tsp
8. corn flour - 2 tbsp
9. Rice flour - 2 tbsp
10. Salt - as needed

Method:

1. Soak urad dhal for 2 hrs.
   
2. Grind the urad dhal without adding a drop of water (This is a tough job to grind it without water.Do not add the whole dhal in one mixer. Grind it three times by splitting it. Take the small mixer jar add a little amount of dhal and grind it.Often open the mixer jar and mix it and swipe the wall of the jar.)
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
3. Add all the ingredients to the batter and mix well.
   
   
   
   
4. Keep under refrigeration  for at-least 30 mins.
5. Now take a bowl filled with water.
   
6. Heat oil in a pan for deep frying.
   
7. Grease the both the hands with water. 
   
8. Take medium quantity of batter and flatten it in the left hand.
   
9. Place a hole in the center and drop it gently to the oil for frying. 
   
   
   
   
10. For each vada we want to grease our hands with water so that the batter will not stick to the hands and flow freely to the oil.
11. Fry vada in low medium flame. Do not fry vada in high flame if frying it in high flame means the outer portion will cook and the center core of vada will not be cooked. So keep it in low medium flame.
    
12. Flip over the vada and cook till it reaches the golden brown color.
13. Take the vada out from the oil and drain excess oil.
    
14. Now our medu vada is ready to serve.
    
15. Serve with coconut chutney.