Vada / Uddina Vade

Ingredients:

1 cup Blckgram seeds / Uddina bele

2 tsp Rice flour

6-7 Curry leaves

5-6 Green Chillies

Small piece of Ginger

Salt to taste

Oil

Recipe:

Soak the blackgram seeds in water for about 3-4 hrs. Grind soaked blackgram seeds, ginger into smooth paste by adding very little amount of water.

Chop green chillies and curry leaves into small pieces. Add chopped green chillies, curry leaves, rice flour, salt to the vessel containing ground blackgram seeds and mix them well.

Put 2 tsp oil in a clean plastic sheet and spread it. Take little amount of dough and place it over the plastic sheet. Make round hole at the center as shown in the picture below.

Keep oil in a thick bottommed vessel and heat it. Slide the vada to oil. Fry both the sides of vada. Serve hot along with Chutney or Sambar. It also goes well with Idli Sambar. The above mentioned ingredients will serve 7-8 vadas.