Tuesday, September 7, 2010

పప్పు వడలు :Pappu vadalu- Fried lentil dough rounds






INGREDIENTS:

Chanadal ....................2 cups
Urad dal........................1 cup
Green chillies...............12 to 15 (according to your taste)
Ginger .........................11/2 inch
Salt to taste
Oil .................................for deep frying
Cilantro................. few leaves
Mint....................... few leaves

METHOD:

1. Clean and soak chana dal and urad dal separately for 3 hours.
2. After 3 hours drain the dalls and keep aside.
3. Clean and peel ginger.
4.Grind the chillies and ginger nice paste.
5. Grind dalls coarsely with out adding water.
6. Add ginger chilly paste to the batter.
7. Add salt , cilantro and mint leaves to batter and mix well.
8. Heat oil in a pan for deep frying
9.Wet left palm, now take medium lemon size batter and press it with right hand
fingers .
10.Now slowly drop into the hot oil.
11.Like this you can drop six vadas at a time.
12.Fry them until brown.
13. Take out from oil and put it on tissue paper to drain oil.
14. Now crispy Vedas are ready to eat.
15. Approximately 25 vadas will come.

Vadas are very tasty with ginger chutney. we prepare them most of our festivals.

2 comments:

  1. Hi Athaya, I tried out the pappu vadalu and they were great. I haven't tried the Masala vada's yet. Will make them now. Kalyan and Sruthi liked Modakams and pappu vadalu.

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  2. wow pinni, lovely instructions, I think I am going to try this sometime soon!!

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