Mixed Dhal Masala Vadai

As the weather is getting colder,especially in the evening time in the weekends we craving  for some spicy or hot snack to munch.When I was thinking to make something for evening snack along with tea,I remembered the mixed dhal vadai,noted sometime back from a T.V cookery show.
This vadai is entirely different from Thavala Vadai which I going to share soon.The original recipe calls for fresh corn along with the dhals.As I ran out of corn,didn't add it,lets move onto the recipe...........................

Basic Information

Soaking Time ~ 3 hours
Preparation time ~ 15 minutes
Cooking Time ~ 15-20 minutes
Makes ~ 15-17

Ingredients

Ingredient	Quantity
Toor dhal/thuvaram paruppu	2 tbs
Channa dhal/kadala paruppu	2 tbs
Moong dhal/paasi paruppu	2 tbs
Urad dhal/ulutham paruppu	2 tbs
Horse gram/kollu	2 tbs
Green Peas/pattani(dried)	2 tbs
Soya beans	2 tbs
Green chilly/pachamilagai	2-3
Red chilly/varamilagai	2-3
Ginger/inji	1' piece
Fennel seeds/sombhu	11/2tsp
Onion(finely chopped)	1 (large size)
Curry leaves/karivepillai(chopped)	1 sprig
Coriander leaves(chopped)	2-3 tbs
Salt	11/2tsp
Oil	for frying

Method

Soak all the dhals and lentils in warm water for 3 hours,grind it to a coarse paste along with ginger,chillies,fennel and salt.

Transfer the ground paste to a bowl,to this add the chopped onion,curry leaves,coriander leaves mix it well.Heat the oil in a medium flame.Take a small lemon size ball of batter and flatten in between the palm. 

Drop it in the oil,fry it till both the sides get golden and crisp,drain it on a kitchen towel.

Serve it with ketchup along with tea.

Enjoy.........................................................

• Grind the fresh corn also along with the dhal if you are using.
• In original recipe the green chillies are finely chopped and added but I wanted to grind it as kids can enjoy.
• Grated carrot can also be added along with the chopped onion.
• Don't grind the dhals to a fine paste,otherwise the vadais won't be crispy.

This recipe is off to  Cook Book Challenge # 5 Febuary week 2 and Let's Brunch on Sundays event.

Posted in: Cook Book Challenge,Snacks