Masala Vada also called as Chana Dal Vada, is a popular South Indian snack made from soaked and ground chana dal (split chickpeas), onion, green chili and spices. It’s deep-fried and served hot with chutney or as an accompaniment to meals.
Masala Vada is also popularly called Paruppu Vadai in Tamilnadu. you can serve masala vada as a evening snack with Andhra Peanut Chutney or Coconut Chutney.
Masala Vada
Masala Vada also called as Paruppu Vada or Chana Dal Vada is a deep fried snack made with split chickpeas.
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Servings: 16 vada
Ingredients
- 1 cup chana dal
- 2 tablespoons yellow moong dal
- 5 green chili
- 2 tabslepoons fresh grated coconut
- 1 inch ginger
- 1 medium onion, finely chopped
- 1 tabslepoon Coriander leaves
- 2 tabslpoons dill, finely chopped
- 1 teaspoon salt or to taste
- oil for deep frying
Instructions
- Soak chana dal and yellow moong dal together in water for 2 hours. Drain the dal, make sure there is absolutely no water left.
- In a food processor grind coarsely the dal and green chilies together. Don’t make a paste out of it, Its important that you grind the dal coarsely.
- Take a small portion of the mixture and try to form a ball. If you can form a ball then it is the perfect texture. If not pulse the mixture couple more times.
- Now to this dal and chili mixture add the coconut, ginger garlic paste, finely chopped onion, salt, coriander and dil.
- Heat oil in a deep skillet and fry the vadas.
- Enjoy the vadas like an evening snack with a hot cup of tea.
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Joaquim
Please explain chop dil. Confused please help. Thanks in advance.
Madhu
Sorry for the confusion. It’s dill (a herb)leaves, chopped finely.
Manjula Bharath
one of my fav snack 🙂 looks very yummy and crispy
Arthy Suman
yea addition of coconut is something new to me too…
Ramya Krishnamurthy
masala vada:)super and am addicted to this eat more than 2 but not with medu vada
Madhavi K
Thanks Padma!
Rasa nandini
This is my all time Fav 😀
Sangeetha
adding coconut is new n interesting, will try it next time…vada looks crispy n yummy!
Sebeena Loyd
crispy vadas.
Vijayalakshmi Dharmaraj
very yummy yummy n crisp vada…