Crunchy Moong Dal Vada Recipe

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Moong Dal Vada is an Indian favorite snack that is made with spiced moong dal. They are crunchy outside and soft inside. This vada is a popular street food in India. Serve this hot vada with your evening tea. Try this recipe.

Ingredients

1 cupsplit wash moong dal (available in Indian grocery stores)
1 cuppotatoes boiled peeled and shredded
2 tablespoonfinely chopped cilantro (hara dhania)
1green chili minced adjust to taste
1 tablespoonfinely grated ginger
1 teaspooncumin seeds (jeera)
1/8 teaspoonasafoetida (hing)
1/8 teaspoonof baking soda
1 teaspoonsalt adjust to taste
Oilto fry

Directions

Wash and soak dal in 3 cups of water for four hours and grind dal coarsely using very little water.
Add potatoes, cilantro, green chili, ginger, cumin seeds, asafoetida and salt to the dal batter and beat the batter for 2-3 minutes this will make the batter light.
Add the water if needed, the batter should be soft and if the batter is too thick vada will be hard.
Heat the oil in a frying pan on medium high heat and the frying pan should have about 1 inch of oil.
To check if the oil is ready, put one drop of batter in oil and the batter should sizzle and come up but not change color right away. If oil is very hot vada will not cook through and will not be crispy.
Place about 1 tablespoon of batter into the oil and fry the vada in small batches and fry vada until golden-brown all around.
Moong Dal Vada should be crispy from outside and should be soft inside.
Serve them with green chutney.

Meghna Nath