DAHI VADA

Ingredients:

• 2 cups Urad Dal • 5 Green Chillies (chopped) • 4'' Ginger (chopped) • 4 cups Curd • 1 cup Milk • 1/2 tsp Roasted Jeera • 1/4 tsp Red Chilli Powder • Oil for deep-frying • Salt to taste

How to make Dahi Vada:

• Soak two cups urad dal for about 6 hours. • Grind the soaked dal. Add salt, ginger, green chillies and little water to make smooth batter. • Beat this batter well, so that there are no lumps. • Heat oil in a pan. With the help of the slotted spoon, leave the batter in form of vadas in the oil. • Deep fry the vadas and keep them on a blotting paper to remove excess oil. • Now dip the vadas in cold salted water to extract their oil for few minutes. • Now squeeze out the water from vadas and keep them aside. • Add milk with the curd to whip the curd well. • Now add roasted jeera, red chilli powder and salt to the curd. • Put seasoned curd in a dish. Dip vadas in the curd. • Keep it in the freezer for half an hour. • Dahi Vada is ready to serve.